ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,507, issued on April 21, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Autonomous phenotype imaging system" was invented by Jian Jin (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Ziling Chen (Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous system for providing consistent images of leaves of plants is disclosed which includes a mobility system configured to move from an originating position to a position above a plant in a field, a robotic system coupled to the mobility system, the robotic system includes a manipulator providing a plurality of degrees of freedom, and an imaging system having an imaging chamber and one...