ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,031, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).
"Apparatus, systems and methods for image plant counting" was invented by Aaron Friedlein (Farmersburg, Iowa), Mike Custer (Minocqua, Wis.) and Corey Weddle (Ames, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating post emergence crops, comprising: capturing images of an area of interest at a first point in time; geo-referencing the images with as-planted data; processing the images to isolate individual plants with the images; modeling the surface of the individual plants; generating at least one crop characteristic for each individual plant; identif...