US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for autonomous monitoring and/or optimization of plant growth" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,946, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for autonomous monitoring and/or optimization of plant growth" was invented by Mathan Kumar Gopal Samy (Medford, Mass.), Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.), Tharakesavulu Vangalapat (Quincy, Mass.) and Jaehan Koh (Chestnuthill, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for autonomous monitoring and/or optimization of plant (140) growth is provided. The system may include actuation devices configured to interact with an agricultural area (120), image sensors (130) configured to capture images (170) of a plant (140) in the agricu...