ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,663, issued on April 1, was assigned to Verdant Robotics Inc..

"Managing stages of growth of a crop with micro-precision via an agricultural treatment delivery system" was invented by Gabriel Thurston Sibley (Menlo Park, Calif.), Curtis Dale Garner (Modesto, Calif.), Andre Robert Daniel Michelin (Topanga, Calif.), Lorenzo Ibarria (Dublin, Calif.), Patrick Christopher Leger (Belmont, Calif.), Benjamin Rewis (Oakland, Calif.) and Shi Yan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously identify and deliver for application a treatment to an object amo...