US Patent Issued to Texas State University on July 15 for "Autonomous farming growth control and maintenance systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,353, issued on July 15, was assigned to Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas).

"Autonomous farming growth control and maintenance systems" was invented by Bahram Asiabanpour (San Marcos, Texas) and Isaac Olson (San Marcos, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods and systems for optimizing a property of a plant. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure include: (1) receiving one or more growth-related parameters of the plant; (2) receiving one or more phenotype-related parameters of the plant; (3) receiving one or more qualitative parameters of the pla...