ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,249, issued on March 3, was assigned to Seeing Systems Pty Ltd (Hornsby, Australia).
"Reconfigurable crop scanning system" was invented by James Underwood (Hornsby, Australia), Peter Morton (Hornsby, Australia) and Steve Scheding (Hornsby, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning system for scanning crops is described, the system being arranged to be mounted to a vehicle and to be traversed along rows of crops, the system including: a carrier which is arranged to be mounted to a vehicle; a number of mountings for attaching items of scanning equipment to the carrier; and wherein at least some of the mountings may be adjuste...