US Patent Issued to Verdant Robotics on May 27 for "Targeting agricultural objects via image pixel tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,171, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verdant Robotics Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Targeting agricultural objects via image pixel tracking" 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 among other objects, data science...