ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,347, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Croda International PLC (East Yorkshire, Great Britain).

"Image processing method" was invented by Alexander Vyacheslavovich Semenov (East Yorkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing images of seeds, the method comprising: inputting a seed image comprising at least a portion of a seed to a trained neural network to generate a value associated with the coverage of a coating on the seed; the trained neural network having been trained to generate a value associated with the coverage of coating on the seed using a plurality of training images each comprising at l...