ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,543, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON VIRGINIA INC. (Newport News, Va.).
"Autonomous monitoring system" was invented by Taisuke Isano (Utsunomiya, Japan), Connor Leschinsky (Hampton, Va.), Hesham Elsaghir (Williamsburg, Va.), Leonard Pascual (Chesapeake, Va.), Thomas Wheeless (Hampton, Va.) and Paul Risque (Williamsburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring vegetation in a predetermined space includes an image capturing unit, a lighting unit, a rail unit on which the image capturing unit and lighting unit move, wherein, in a case where a lighting condition of the predetermined space is a first lighting c...