ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,349, issued on May 13, was assigned to TECHNOLOGIES NECTAR INC. (Montreal).

"System and method for monitoring, identifying and recording beehive status" was invented by Marc-Andre Roberge (Montreal), Evan Henry (Montreal), Bastien Laurent (Montreal), Ugo Pellerin (Montreal), Xavier de Briey (Montreal) and Jean-Samuel Chenard (Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system classifies aspects of beehive phenomenon by fusing sensor data from inside a beehive and human collected data from the same beehive using machine learning algorithms. The human collected data labels the sensor data indicating various as...