US Patent Issued to Intercontinental Great Brands on Oct. 14 for "Computer system and method for predicting nutrient levels and generating treatment recommendations for cocoa trees" (American, Brazilian, Indonesian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,511, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intercontinental Great Brands LLC (East Hanover, N.J.).

"Computer system and method for predicting nutrient levels and generating treatment recommendations for cocoa trees" was invented by Carol Brigley (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Marcelinus Alfasisurya Setya Adhiwibawa (Kota Batu, Indonesia) and Andrew Carlos Kondlatsch (Curitiba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform configured to: (i) receive spectrometry data for a leaf sample of a cocoa tree; (ii) utilize a first set of one or more artificial intelligence (AI) models to predict one or more nutrient levels for the leaf ...