ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,655, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Keygene N.V. (Wageningen, Netherlands).
"Efficient plant selection" was invented by Marco Gerardus Maria van Schriek (Wageningen, Netherlands), Rudolf Laurentius van Bavel (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Niek Bouman (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant selection apparatus has a storage means for storing a plurality of image datasets of plants and associated plant information including at least one of genotype information of the plants, phenotype information of the plants, and pedigree information of the plants. A selection unit preselects a subset of the plants. A displ...