US Patent Issued to STRATUS AERO on March 25 for "System for damaging and/or destroying crop of plants, and related methods" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,724, issued on March 25, was assigned to STRATUS AERO LLC (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

"System for damaging and/or destroying crop of plants, and related methods" was invented by Morgan Perry (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for targeting and damaging a growing plant includes an aircraft, a laser, and a controller. The laser and controller are mounted to the aircraft, which can position the laser and controller airborne at least 350 meters away from the growing plant to be damaged. The laser can generate a beam of energy sufficient to critically damage the plant when the plant is exposed to the beam and located at least 350 ...