ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,463, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural pruning system" was invented by Kotaro Shimada (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural pruning system includes a storage to store a plurality of trained artificial intelligence (AI) models, and a processor configured or programmed to select a trained AI model from among the plurality of trained AI models. Each of the plurality of trained AI models determines whether to remove or retain each of one or more canes of a fruit tree."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/987,379.

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