US Patent Issued to MJNN on April 7 for "Monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence and green light reflectance to detect plant stress" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,070, issued on April 7, was assigned to MJNN LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence and green light reflectance to detect plant stress" was invented by Tessa Hilary Pocock (Laramie, Wyo.) and Matthew Robert Urschel (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for remote detection of growth conditions of a plant species. In a particular implementation, the present invention provides improved techniques for identifying one or more stress conditions in plants, including without limitation, drought stress, temperature stress, salinity stress and other conditions in a plant species. An...