Multiple emitters to treat agricultural objects from multiple payload sources

US11963473B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Verdant Robotics, Inc.

Inventors

• Gabriel Thurston Sibley · Menlo Park, US
• Curtis Dale Garner · Modesto, US
• Andre Robert Daniel Michelin · Topanga, US
• Lorenzo Ibarria · Dublin, US
• Patrick Christopher Leger · Belmont, US
• Benjamin Rewis · Oakland, US
• Shi Yan · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2022
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2024
• Expiry date: Dec 30, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01M7/0089
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously identify and deliver for application a treatment to an object among other objects, data science and data analysis, including machine learning, deep learning, and other disciplines of computer-based artificial intelligence to facilitate identification and treatment of objects, and robotics and mobility technologies to navigate a delivery system, more specifically, to an agricultural delivery system configured to identify and apply, for example, an agricultural treatment to an identified agricultural object. In some examples, a method may include, receiving data representing a policy specifying a type of action for an agricultural object, selecting an emitter with which to perform a type of action for the agricultural object as one of one or more classified subsets, and configuring the agricultural projectile delivery system to activate an emitter to propel an agricultural projectile to intercept the agricultural object.