US Patent Issued to Spotify on May 13 for "Systems and methods for predicting crop size and yield" (South African, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,294, issued on May 13, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for predicting crop size and yield" was invented by Benjamin Meltzer (Cape Town, South Africa), Michael Wootton (Cape Town, South Africa), James Paterson (Los Angeles), Munsanje Mweene (Cape Town, South Africa) and Josh Perry (Cape Town, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for predicting a yield of fruit growing in an agricultural plot are provided. At a first time, a first plurality of images of a canopy of the agricultural plot is obtained from an aerial view of the canopy of the agricultural plot. From the first plurality of images,...