ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,274, issued on May 27, was assigned to SENTERA INC. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Precision agriculture using pose georeferenced analytics" was invented by Andrew Muehlfeld (St. Paul, Minn.), Henry Nelson (St. Paul, Minn.), Ryan Nelson (St. Paul, Minn.), Eric Taipale (St. Paul, Minn.) and Nicholas Witthoeft (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Precision agriculture methods and systems where drone images of an agricultural field are captured by a UAV and analyzed to generate information regarding the agricultural field. Items of interest are identified in the images, the pixel-space locations of the items of interest are determined, ...