US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for use in identifying features of crops" (Missouri, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,881, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods and systems for use in identifying features of crops" was invented by Chethana Goriga (Chesterfield, Mo.), Anthony James Jones (Saint Louis, Mo.) and Jeremy Joshua Pittman (Ardmore, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying features(s) of crops are provided. One example computer-implemented method includes accessing image data specific to a cotton plant. The image data includes images of the cotton plant and, for each image, depth data indicative of a range between surfaces of the cotton plant and a camera(s) ...