US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on Oct. 28 for "Non-contact, non-invasive, and quantitative agricultural monitoring devices and systems" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,191, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Fla.).

"Non-contact, non-invasive, and quantitative agricultural monitoring devices and systems" was invented by Mitchell Robert Harrah (Tampa, Fla.) and Abdul Mohaimen Safi (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for agricultural monitoring are disclosed. The methods and systems include: projecting, by a light source, a coherent light output on at least a part of a plant material; acquiring, by an imaging device, one or more speckle images based on the coherent light output backscattered by at least the part of the plant material; pro...