ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,729, issued on June 23, was assigned to Verdant Robotics Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for surveying an agricultural environment on a moving platform" was invented by Gabriel Thurston Sibley (Menlo Park, Calif.), Curtis Dale Garner (Modesto, Calif.), Andre Robert Daniel Michelin (Topanga, Calif.), Lorenzo Ibarria (Dublin, Calif.), Patrick Christopher Leger (Belmont, Calif.), Benjamin Rewis (Oakland, Calif.) and Shi Yan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously survey an agricultural environment. In some examples, a system can ...