ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,670, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tobacco Research Institute of CAAS (Qingdao City, China).

"Automatic obstacle avoidance method and system of pesticide application robot and storage medium" was invented by Xiuguo Wang (Qingdao City, China), Zhongfeng Zhang (Qingdao City, China), Guangwei Ren (Qingdao City, China), Xiao Zheng (Qingdao City, China), Wenjing Mu (Qingdao City, China) and Tong Liu (Qingdao City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an automatic obstacle avoidance method and system of a pesticide application robot and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a plan view of a target pesticide a...