ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,444, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon Virginia Inc. (Newport News, Va.).

"Plant detection and display system" was invented by Hunter Orrell (Newport News, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant detection and display system obtains, from an image capture device, an image of a plurality of plants; execute detection processing on the obtained image using a trained model to classify each of the plurality of plants into a first category indicative of a defective plant having a quality score below a predetermined quality threshold or a second category indicative of a normal plant, determine, from the obtained image, position in...