ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,021, issued on March 24, was assigned to BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Method for plantation treatment of a plantation field with a variable application rate" was invented by Matthias Tempel (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for plantation treatment of a plantation field, the method comprising: determining (S10) an application rate decision logic (10) based on offline field data (Doff) relating to expected conditions on the plantation field (300); taking (S20) an image (20) of a plantation of a plantation field (300); recognizing (S30) objects (30) on the taken image (20); de...