ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,466, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VIEWNETIC LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and methods for monitoring plants in plant growing areas" was invented by David Scheiner (Savyion, Israel), Eilat Tal (D.N. Arava, Israel) and Hai Benron (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring plants' conditions in one or more plant growing areas are presented. The system comprises a data collection system for providing characterization data about various parameters of plants in the one or more plant growing areas, the data collection system comprising data collection modules of at least first and second differe...