US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 25 for "Methods, systems, and devices for tomographic rhizosphere imager" (New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,925, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for tomographic rhizosphere imager" was invented by Roelof Versteeg (Hanover, N.H.) and Yuxin Wu (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for rhizosphere imaging. Methods include applying a signal to a portion of a plant and its roots via at least one first electrode, receiving the signal via at least one second electrode placed a designated distance from the plant, and generating, using one or more processors, a rhizosphere model based, at l...