ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,042, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Qingdao, China).
"Provincial-scale prediction method of winter wheat grain protein content" was invented by Zhenhai Li (Qingdao, China), Xiaobin Xu (Qingdao, China), Hongchun Zhu (Qingdao, China), Lili Zhou (Qingdao, China), Jibin Xu (Qingdao, China), Shizhe Wei (Qingdao, China) and Xiaokang Zhang (Qingdao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A provincial-scale prediction method of a winter wheat grain protein content includes obtaining crop canopy spectral information of different spatial resolutions and spectral resolutions during a wheat growth...