US Patent Issued to Local Bounti Operating on Feb. 24 for "Optimizing growing process in a hybrid growing environment using computer vision and artificial intelligence" (Montana, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,741, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Local Bounti Operating Co. LLC (Hamilton, Mont.).

"Optimizing growing process in a hybrid growing environment using computer vision and artificial intelligence" was invented by Bryan B. Nguyen (Garland, Texas), Dave Vosburg (Corvallis, Mont.), Alexander Francis (Denver), Seth Swanson (Missoula, Mont.) and Kate Crosby (Hamilton, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing plant growth in a hybrid growing environment may implement artificial intelligence to measure and alter plant biometrics. Independent variables may be altered by a control unit by manipulating various control s...