ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,226, issued on April 7, was assigned to KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (Einbeck, Germany).

"Method and system for automated plant image labeling" was invented by Christoph Bauer (Einbeck, Germany), Christoph Fritzsch (Hardegsen, Germany), Ludmilla Dahl (Einbeck, Germany) and Christian Jebsen (Einbeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method can include acquiring first training images using a first image acquisition technique, where each first training image depicts a plant-related motive; and acquiring second training images using a second image acquisition technique, where each second training image depicts the ...