ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,186, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (Einbeck, Germany).
"System and method for phenotyping of organisms" was invented by Benjamin David Gruber (Einbeck, Germany), Harald Aigner (Einbeck, Germany), Hanna Wildhagen (Gottingen, Germany) and Sabine Gubatz (Dassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a phenotyping system (1), comprising a plant unit (11) having one or more plants (17), a growing area (5), a measurement area (7), a sensor (73) located in the measurement area (5) for acquiring phene-data related to phenes of the plants (17), wherein the phenotyping system (1) is adapted...