US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 13 for "Leaf detection and extraction system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,772, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Leaf detection and extraction system" was invented by Konstantinos Karydis (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Merrick Campbell (Riverside, Calif.) and Amel Dechemi (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and methods for leaf detection and extraction. The extracted leaf may be used for leaf water potential analysis. In some embodiments, the method comprises identifying the leaf from a point cloud based on an image, determining a pose of the leaf based on the point cloud, and cutting and storing the leaf b...