ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,262, issued on March 3, was assigned to Croptimistic Technology Inc. (Naicam, Canada).

"Method and system for automatically capturing and extracting data from images of agricultural field crops and weeds using machine learning processes" was invented by Derek Stanley Rude (Muenster, Canada), Stuart Hassall (Peachland, Canada), Corwyn Willness (Naicam, Canada), Abdul Bais (Regina, Canada) and Muhammed Hamza Asad (Regina, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automatically capturing and extracting data from images of agricultural field crops, weeds, and soil within management zones representing soil, water, and ...