ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,893, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for classifying plants, and computer program product" was invented by Andreas Weimer (Gaertringen, Germany) and Farid Khani (Boennigheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying plants. In the method, the plants or their plant components, in particular plant leaves, are detected in an evaluation region with the aid of an optical and/or infrared detection unit, and the detected image data of the detection unit are evaluated with the aid of an algorithm, via the evaluation a first plant type being distinguished from ...