ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,760, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods and systems for use in processing images related to crop phenology" was invented by Steven Baldwin (Ellisville, Mo.), Robert Brauer (Lincoln, Neb.), Mohammad Alfi Hasan (Saint Louis, Mo.), Kyle Parmley (Ankeny, Iowa) and Venkata Soumya Pisupati (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for use in processing image data of crops associated with one or more plots. One example computer-implemented method includes accessing a data set including images associated with one or more plots. The method then inclu...