ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,305, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Airflow control for agricultural pollination" was invented by John M. Ganci Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for airflow control for agricultural pollination is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes performing image analysis on an agricultural image to determine a type and classification of one or more plants in the agricultural image, determining one or more pollination require...