US Patent Issued to THE STATE OF ISRAEL MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (ARO) (VOLCANI CENTER) on June 17 for "Method for assessing nitrogen nutritional status in plants by visible-to-shortwave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of carbohydrates" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,167, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE STATE OF ISRAEL MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (ARO) (VOLCANI CENTER) (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

"Method for assessing nitrogen nutritional status in plants by visible-to-shortwave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of carbohydrates" was invented by Tarin Paz-Kagan (Meitar, Israel), Or Sperling (Beit Kama, Israel), Ze'ev Schmilovitch (Yehud, Israel), Uri Yermiyahu (Yavne, Israel) and Tal Rapaport (Lehavim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for evaluating the nutritional status in plants, using visible...