ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,689, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Institut Biosens-Istrazivacko-Razvojni Institut Za Informacione Tehnologije Biosistema (Novi Sad, Serbia).

"System and method for intelligent soil sampling" was invented by Goran Kitic (Novi Sad, Serbia), Marko Panic (Novi Sad, Serbia), Sanja Brdar (Novi Sad, Serbia), Vladimir Crnojevic (Novi Sad, Serbia), Damir Krkljes (Novi Sad, Serbia), Caba Petes (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Slobodan Birgermajer (Novi Sad, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for soil sampling utilizing a robotic system that determines sampling points through artificial intelligence algorithms. The robotic ...