US Patent Issued to Yangzhou University on Nov. 18 for "Rice and wheat nitrogen nutrition multispectral diagnosis method for precise fertilization by unmanned aerial vehicles" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,522, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Yangzhou University (Yangzhou, China).

"Rice and wheat nitrogen nutrition multispectral diagnosis method for precise fertilization by unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Changwei Tan (Jiangsu, China), Changrong Shi (Jiangsu, China), Qingqing Hong (Jiangsu, China), Zhenwang Li (Jiangsu, China), Yunqin Yang (Jiangsu, China) and Zhixin Lu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a rice and wheat nitrogen nutrition multispectral diagnosis method for precise fertilization by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including: step 1, acquiring multispectral UAV remote sensing images...