US Patent Issued to Auburn University on March 31 for "Tree seedling inventory system" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,848, issued on March 31, was assigned to Auburn University (Auburn, Ala.).

"Tree seedling inventory system" was invented by Yin Bao (Auburn, Ala.), James L. Johnson (Auburn, Ala.), Bobby Bradford (Auburn, Ala.) and Rafael Bidese Puhl (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present tree seedling inventory system includes both a mobile platform used to obtain images of seedlings and a tree seedling inventory system to count the seedlings. A recurrent neural network can receive processed imaging data and utilize a model to accurately count the seedlings as the mobile platform passes along a seedling bed. The system may also pr...