US Patent Issued to VERDANT ROBOTICS on March 11 for "Detecting and tracking features of plants for treatment in an agricultural environment" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,534, issued on March 11, was assigned to VERDANT ROBOTICS INC. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Detecting and tracking features of plants for treatment in an agricultural environment" was invented by Gabriel Thurston Sibley (Alameda, Calif.), Lorenzo Ibarria (Dublin, Calif.), Curtis Dale Garner (Sand City, Calif.), Patrick Christopher Leger (Belmont, Calif.) and Dustin James Webb (Murray, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system having instructions to perform actions include obtaining images of an agricultural environment including a first image comprising at least one background portion and one or more regions of interest, implem...