Crop Disease Recognition and Yield Estimation
US10438302 · Filed 2017 · granted 2019 · The Climate Corporation · Co-inventor
A farmer walks a field, points a phone at a plant, and the app tells them what is wrong with it. The camera scans continuously. A convolutional neural network recognizes diseases like grey leaf spot and northern leaf blight in real time, scores its confidence, and overlays causes and treatment options on the live image. No lab, no waiting for an agronomist to visit. The same system estimates yield: point the camera at a corn ear and image segmentation counts the kernels. Extended internationally; continuation granted 2021.
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User ID Codes for Online Verification
US11546332 · Priority 2018 · granted 2023 · Civic Technologies · Co-inventor
Anyone can claim to be an advisor to a company. This covers a way to prove it. The platform verifies the person, verifies the company, and confirms the relationship between them. The result is a badge the company displays on its site; click it and the verification renders on a domain the platform controls, so it cannot be faked. Underneath: personal data stays encrypted on the user's device, verifications live as hashed attestations on-chain, and users share only the fields a verifier asks for. Continuation granted 2024.
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