US Patent Issued to HAINAN UNIVERSITY, SANYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HAINAN UNIVERSITY on Nov. 18 for "Feces color-based remote sensing estimation method and apparatus for antarctic bird population size" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,677, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Haikou, China) and SANYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Sanya, China).

"Feces color-based remote sensing estimation method and apparatus for antarctic bird population size" was invented by Peng Zhao (Haikou, China), Yufei Deng (Haikou, China), Pengjia Liu (Haikou, China) and Jinmeng Yan (Haikou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feces color-based remote sensing estimation method and apparatus for Antarctic bird population size is disclosed, which comprises: determining a reflectance value range of a mixture of new feces and old feces in a remote sensing image; ...