ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,915, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Plant-monitor" was invented by Itzhak Khait (Tel Aviv, Israel), Raz Sharon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yosef Yovel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Lilach Hadany (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring plants, the system comprising: one or more sound collectors configured to receive and generate signals based on sounds that plants make; and a computer system configured to receive and process the signals to provide a profile of a plant producing the sounds."
The patent was filed on Aug. 20, 2019, under Application No. 17/270,0...