ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,947, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TIANJIN CHENGJIAN UNIVERSITY (Tianjin, China) and XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY (Xi'an, China).

"Irrigation system and method based on computer vision monitoring" was invented by Bin Yang (Tianjin, China), Xiao Wang (Tianjin, China) and Dacheng Jin (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigation system and a method based on computer vision monitoring are provided. The system includes a collector, an analyzer, a controller, and irrigation equipment. The collector includes weather sensors for collecting weather information, monitoring sensors for collecting plant imag...