US Patent Issued to Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tea Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences on Aug. 5 for "Method for positioning tea-bud picking points based on fused thermal images and RGB images" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,550, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Hangzhou, China) and Tea Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Jinan, China).

"Method for positioning tea-bud picking points based on fused thermal images and RGB images" was invented by Chunwang Dong (Jinan, China), Yang Li (Hangzhou, China), Mei Wang (Jinan, China), Jianneng Chen (Hangzhou, China), Rentian Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Yifan Cheng (Hangzhou, China), Jiayin Jiang (Hangzhou, China) and Muzhe Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for positioning tea-bud picking points ba...