ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,536, issued on July 29, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Plant growth monitoring system and method" was invented by Marc Aoun (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant growth monitoring system comprises an image capture system for capturing images over time of a plant being monitored. The images are used to derive successive time instants corresponding to predetermined growth states of the plant. A temperature exposure parameter is obtained between the successi...