US Patent Issued to SeedSpider on May 13 for "System and method for autonomous detection of plant matter and selective action on plant matter in an agriculture field" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,358, issued on May 13, was assigned to SeedSpider Ltd (Palmerston North, New Zealand).

"System and method for autonomous detection of plant matter and selective action on plant matter in an agriculture field" was invented by Donald Harry Sandbrook (Palmerston North, New Zealand), Brendan Taylor (Palmerston North, New Zealand), William Haarhoff (Palmerston North, New Zealand) and Tobin Hall (Palmerston North, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, at a mobile chassis: detecting presence of a plant in a crop row based on an image of the crop bed captured by a LIDAR sensor integrated into the mobile chassis; estim...