ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,762, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).
"System for inspecting and evaluating a green infrastructure" was invented by James G Hunter (Baltimore), Jingwen Xue (Parkville, Md.) and Xuejun Qian (Parkville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for integrating state-of-the art of the facilities, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, computer-based tools, quantitative standard values, optionally along with fuzzy logic, to assess GI performance based on factors such as plant density percentages, plant health condition, and invasive plant numbers. A UAV drone is used to take images above the plants and analyze ...