ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,520, issued on April 14, was assigned to 4AG Robotics Inc. (Salmon Arm, Canada).

"Machine-learning virtualization-enabled harvesting" was invented by Peter Mankowski (Vernon, Canada), Vijaya Sankar Velayudham Jayashree (Salmon Arm, Canada) and Nathan Tomlinson (Enderby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting program system iteratively generates current harvesting programs for performance by harvesting equipment on a mushroom bed. The system receives current mushroom bed data corresponding to the mushroom bed including growing mushrooms at the current times. The system processes the current mushroom bed data using a mushr...