ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,631, issued on June 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Colorizing x-ray images" was invented by Zhiqiang Yuan (San Jose, Calif.) and Elliott Grant (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for colorizing an X-ray image and predicting one or more phenotypic traits about a plant based on the colorized X-ray image. In various implementations, an X-ray image that depicts a plant with a canopy of the plant partially occluding a part-of-interest is obtained, where the part-of-interest is visible through the canopy in the X-ray image. The X-ray images is colorized to predict one or m...