US Patent Issued to PLANTIUM, GENTILI. JORGE A. on July 14 for "System and method of detection and identification of crops and weeds" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,450, issued on July 14, was assigned to PLANTIUM S.A. (Prov. de Santa Fe, Argentina) and GENTILI. JORGE A. (Prov. de Santa Fe, Argentina).

"System and method of detection and identification of crops and weeds" was invented by Cintia Corti (Alcorta, Argentina) and Nicolas Pellejero (Rosario, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and identifying plant species in an agricultural field that allows to act on them, which comprises at least one camera that includes a lens, a bandpass filter and an image sensor; a GPS unit; and at least one data processing unit comprising data storage means and in data communication...