ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,429, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determination apparatus, determination method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yukihiro Uchida (Tokyo), Kenji Oishi (Tokyo) and Hideo Uemura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a determination apparatus including a planning data acquisition unit configured to acquire planning data representing a logging plan for logging of standing timber for a target area, a first image data acquisition unit configured to acquire first image data representing a first image captured before the logging for the target area, a second imag...