ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,342, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Andong National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Andong-si, South Korea).

"Device, system, and method for variably predicting vase life of cut flowers by using hyperspectral image and thermal image" was invented by Byung Chun In (Andong-si, South Korea), Young Tae Kim (Andong-si, South Korea) and Ji Yeong Ham (Andong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system, and method for variably predicting the vase life of cut flowers by using a hyperspectral image and a thermal image are proposed. The disclosed obtains the hyperspectral image of a cut flower plant ...