US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 19 for "Methods and systems for use in processing images related to crops" (Nebraska, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,957, issued on May 19, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods and systems for use in processing images related to crops" was invented by Robert Brauer (Lincoln, Neb.) and Nima Hamidi Ghalehjegh (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing image data associated with plots are provided. One example computer-implemented method includes accessing a data set including multiple images, a mask for each of the images, and classification data for each of the images, and inputting each of the images to a classifier of a model architecture. The method also includes, for each o...