US Patent Issued to Discovery Purchaser on Feb. 3 for "Image monitoring for control of invasive grasses" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,915, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Discovery Purchaser Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Image monitoring for control of invasive grasses" was invented by Kevin Adam (Cary, N.C.) and Brent Slone (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to weed mapping, monitoring and control, in particular to the mapping, monitoring and control of invasive annual grasses. A computer system comprises a receiving unit providing a processing unit with images of a geographical area, the images displaying the geographical area at points in time during a phenological cycle of a weed. At least two images depicting a weed at two different...