US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 8 for "Fusing multimodal environmental data for agricultural inference" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,196, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Fusing multimodal environmental data for agricultural inference" was invented by Yawen Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Kezhen Chen (San Mateo, Calif.), Jinmeng Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaoyuan Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jie Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Luis Pazos Outon (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are disclosed for fusing multiple modalities of data into a multimodal feature embedding and then processing the multimodal feature embedding using various downstream processes for training and/or inference purposes. In various implem...