ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,246, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deep learning system and method for predicting crop characteristics" was invented by Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha (Sao Paulo), Anirudh Badam (Issaquah, Wash.), Patrick Bernd Buehler (Boston), Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.), Debasis Dan (Hyderabad, India), Maria Angels de Luis Blaguer (Redmond, Wash.), Swati Sharma (Hayward, Calif.), Fnu Aditi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sara Malvar Maua (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep learning system is used to predict crop characteristics from inputs that include crop variety features, envir...