US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Aug. 12 for "Methods and systems for determining the growth stage of a plant" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,844, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for determining the growth stage of a plant" was invented by Celine Catherine Sarah Nicole (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Dragan Sekoulovski (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Harry Broers ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) and Marc Andre De Samber (Lommel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the growth stage of a plant is disclosed. The method comprises illuminating the plant with illumination light. The illumination light causes response light from the plant. The method further comprises detecting the response ligh...