Patents by Inventor John M. McNichols

John M. McNichols has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11961289
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of inputting, to a machine-learned model that has been trained to recognize a horticultural product in digital imagery, digital video data comprising frames that represent a view of the horticultural product in belt-assisted transit from a picking area of a field to a harvester bin; outputting, by the machine-learned model, annotated video data; using the annotated video data, computing quantitative data comprising particular counts of the individual instances of the horticultural product associated with particular timestamp data; using the timestamp data, mapping the quantitative data to geographic location data to produce a digital yield map; causing display of the digital yield map on a field manager computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CLIMATE LLC
    Inventors: John M. McNichols, Daniel A. Williams, Keely Roth, Ali Hamidisepehr
  • Publication number: 20220019796
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of inputting, to a machine-learned model that has been trained to recognize a horticultural product in digital imagery, digital video data comprising frames that represent a view of the horticultural product in belt-assisted transit from a picking area of a field to a harvester bin; outputting, by the machine-learned model, annotated video data; using the annotated video data, computing quantitative data comprising particular counts of the individual instances of the horticultural product associated with particular timestamp data; using the timestamp data, mapping the quantitative data to geographic location data to produce a digital yield map; causing display of the digital yield map on a field manager computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: John M. McNichols, Daniel A. Williams, Keely Roth, Ali Hamidisepehr