US Patent Issued to BASF on March 3 for "Quantifying plant infestation by estimating the number of biological objects on leaves, by convolutional neural networks that use training images obtained by a semi-supervised approach" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,959, issued on March 3, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Quantifying plant infestation by estimating the number of biological objects on leaves, by convolutional neural networks that use training images obtained by a semi-supervised approach" was invented by Aranzazu Bereciartua-Perez (Derio, Spain), Artzai Picon Ruiz (Derio, Spain), Aitor Alvarez Gila (Derio, Spain), Jone Echazarra Huguet (Derio, Spain), Till Eggers (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Christian Klukas (Limburgerhof, Germany), Ramon Navarra-Mestre (Limburgerhof, Germany) and Laura Gomez Zamanillo (Derio, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer ...