US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and method for crop yield prediction" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,701, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Apparatus and method for crop yield prediction" was invented by Kaiyu Guan (Champaign, Ill.), Jian Peng (Champaign, Ill.), Xiangtao Xu (Arlington, Mass.), Sibo Wang (Champaign, Ill.) and Bin Peng (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, perform operations, the operations comprising: identifying an occurrenc...