ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,315, issued on June 2, was assigned to TidalX AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Aquatic biomass estimation" was invented by Yangli Hector Yee (San Francisco), Terry Allan Smith (Saratoga, Calif.) and Bianca Bahman (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for aquatic biomass estimation. One of the methods includes obtaining an image of an aquatic environment including aquatic grass; providing the image to a network model trained to construct a point cloud indicating a portion of the image that represents the aquatic grass; generating a ...