ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,249, issued on May 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Remote sensing interpretation" was invented by Hongxu Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Yujing Qian (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuchi Ma (Madison, Wis.) and Yuanyuan Tian (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for obtaining a sequence of high-elevation images capturing a particular geographic area during a particular time period in a plurality of spectral bands; applying the sequence of high-elevation images as input to upstream machine learning model(s) to generate remote sensing embeddings indicating terrain feature(s) of the parti...