US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 22 for "High-throughput, modular, portable, live-imaging root system and method" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,522, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"High-throughput, modular, portable, live-imaging root system and method" was invented by Ikram Blilou (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Vinicius M. Lube (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Alexander Przybysz (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Khaled Nabil Salama (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable, modular plant monitoring system includes an imaging subsystem configured to acquire images of plural plants with a camera, an imaging actuation subsystem configured to support the imaging subsystem and to translate the imagin...