US Patent Issued to China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research on Sept. 2 for "Rapid UAV-based monitoring and discrimination method for drought in summer maize based on chlorophyll content" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,259, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Beijing).

"Rapid UAV-based monitoring and discrimination method for drought in summer maize based on chlorophyll content" was invented by Wenlong Song (Beijing), Mengyi Li (Beijing), Changjun Liu (Beijing), Pu Zhou (Beijing), Lang Yu (Beijing), Yizhu Lu (Beijing), Yun Liu (Beijing), Wenjing Lu (Beijing), Xiuhua Chen (Beijing) and Long Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid monitoring and discrimination method for drought conditions in summer maize based on chlorophyll content includes: 1) Obtaining multi-spectral imagery ...