ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,555, issued on July 28, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"System and method for spatial analysis of leaf images" was invented by Jian Jin (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Zhihang Song (West Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for spatial analysis of leaf images is disclosed which includes acquiring one or more leaf images of plants, generating 3-dimensional (3D) images from the acquired one or more images from spectral heatmaps, identifying a stem and a plurality of veins, identifying i) one or more of valleys and ridges as regions between two consecutive veins from the plurality of vei...