ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,881, issued on June 3, was assigned to FarmWise Labs Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Method for autonomously weeding crops in an agricultural field" was invented by Thomas Palomares (San Francisco), Sebastien Boyer (San Francisco), Arthur Flajolet (San Francisco) and Eric Stahl-David (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for weeding crops includes, at an autonomous machine: recording an image at the front of the autonomous machine; detecting a target plant and calculating an opening location for the target plant longitudinally offset and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant; driving a weeding mod...