US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Sept. 8 for "Devices and methods for collecting volumetric measurements of objects with complex shapes" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,993, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Devices and methods for collecting volumetric measurements of objects with complex shapes" was invented by Truman Combs (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kamel Didan (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Direct measurements of plant morphological characteristics can be difficult. Allometric equations can relate traits such as canopy height (CH) and width or stem diameter at breast height (DBH) to coarse measures of biomass or volume. However, precise and accurate measurements of plants and other irregular objects are st...