US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on June 23 for "Automated systems and methods for agricultural crop monitoring and sampling" (Indiana, Virginia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,735, issued on June 23, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Automated systems and methods for agricultural crop monitoring and sampling" was invented by David J. Cappelleri (West Lafayette, Ind.), Nitya N. Agrawal (Centreville, Va.), Aarya Deb (West Lafayette, Ind.), Brian Huang (Scotch Plains, N.J.) and Kitae Kim (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system navigates a terrain adjacent one or more agricultural crops. The system includes a movable body operable to navigate the ground terrain, a tracking camera configured to generate visual-inertial odometry (VIO) data, a first ...