US Patent Issued to Spraying Systems on May 19 for "Spot weed detection and treatment within a field of view in accordance with machine learning training" (Belgian, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,811, issued on May 19, was assigned to Spraying Systems Co. (Wheaton, Ill.).

"Spot weed detection and treatment within a field of view in accordance with machine learning training" was invented by Mark Philip Philipsen (Dybvad, Denmark), Hendrik A. Van Den Bulcke (Merelbeke, Belgium) and Jan Emma Louis Anthonis (Haasrode, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weed spot-spraying system is described for carrying out a spot-based weed spraying method based upon a classification value rendered from a sub-field image in accordance with a machine learning-based trained model applied by a processor to the sub-field image. The system inclu...