ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,589, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verdant Robotics Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).
"Multiaction treatment of plants in an agricultural environment" was invented by Gabriel Thurston Sibley (Alameda, Calif.), Lorenzo Ibarria (Dublin, Calif.), Curtis Dale Garner (Sand City, Calif.) and Patrick Christopher Leger (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes traversing, by the treatment system, along a path in an agricultural environment, receiving, by the treatment system, one or more sensor readings comprising one or more agricultural objects, identifying one or more objects of interest from the one or more agricultu...