ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,635, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hangzhou Glority Software Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Computer-executable method relating to weeds and computer system" was invented by Qingsong Xu (Hangzhou, China) and Qing Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-executable method relating to weeds, and a computer system. The method comprises: receiving an image (S11); recognizing one or more plants in the image in order to obtain the classification and/or names of the plants, and determining whether the plants are weeds (S12); and in response to determining that at least one plant is a weed, outputting information indica...