ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,872, issued on July 1, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Autonomous phenotype imaging system" was invented by Jian Jin (West Lafayette, Ind.), Xuan Li (Lafayette, Ind.) and Ziling Chen (Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous system for providing consistent images of leaves of plants is disclosed which includes a mobility unit configured to move from an originating position to a position about a plant in a field, one or more vacuum units coupled to the mobility unit configured to be positioned above one or more leaves of the plant, the one or more vacuum units each having one or m...