ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,259, issued on July 22, was assigned to RPerception Ltd (Modi'in, Israel).

"Robotic sprayer for optimizing application of crop related materials" was invented by Yoav Banitt (Modiln, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic sprayer for optimizing application of crop related materials, comprising one or more imaging sensors, one or more nozzles configured for spraying one or more materials, one or more actuators configured for moving the one or more nozzles, and one or more controllers. The controller(s) is configured for receiving imagery data captured by the imaging sensor(s) depicting one or more plants, computing a foliage ...