Patents by Inventor Curtis Dale Garner
Curtis Dale Garner 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).
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Patent number: 12205369Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The agricultural treatment system may determine a first real-world geo-spatial location of the treatment system. The system can receive captured images depicting real-world agricultural objects of a geographic scene. The system can associate captured images with the determined geo-spatial location of the treatment system. The treatment system can identify, from a group of mapped and indexed images, images having a second real-word geo-spatial location that is proximate with the first real-world geo-spatial location. The treatment system can compare at least a portion of the identified images with at least a portion of the captured images. The treatment system can determine a target object and emit a fluid projectile at the target object using a treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, John Phillip Hurliman, II, Wisit Jirattigalachote, Hasan Tafish
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Patent number: 12137681Abstract: A method performed by a treatment system disposed on a moving platform, the treatment system having one or more processors, a storage and a treatment mechanism, comprising: receiving one or more images of an environment in which the moving platform is operating; identifying, in real-time, a pose of the moving platform using sensor inputs; identifying one or more target objects by processing the one or more images using a machine learning (ML) algorithm; and controlling the treatment mechanism to treat the one or more target objects by orienting the treatment mechanism towards the one or more target objects at least partially based on the pose.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: VERDANT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger
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Publication number: 20240324486Abstract: A system provides for receiving data representing a policy with which to implement one or more actions in association with one or more subsets of agricultural objects. The system identifies a subset of payloads to provide actions based on data representing the policy for one or more subsets of agricultural objects. The system determines whether a payload is sufficient to implement the one or more actions. The system transmits data representing executable instructions to implement the one or more actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Curtis Dale Garner, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, Lorenzo Ibarria, Patrick Christopher Leger, Benjamin Rewis, Shi Yan
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Publication number: 20240268248Abstract: Various embodiments of apparatuses, methods, systems, and computer program products described herein are directed to a treatment system having a first group of in line emitters, a second group of in line emitters, and one or more payload sources, configured to identify a first group of one or more agricultural objects, select a first emitter from the first group of in line emitters to apply a first liquid-based treatment to the identified first group of one or more agricultural objects, identify a second group of one or more agricultural objects, select a second emitter from the second group of in line emitters to apply a second liquid-based treatment to the identified second group of one or more agricultural objects, simultaneously apply the first liquid-based treatment towards the first group of one or more agricultural objects and apply the second liquid-based treatment towards the second group of one or more agricultural objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Curtis Dale Garner, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, Lorenzo Ibarria, Patrick Christopher Leger, Benjamin Rewis, Shi Yan
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Publication number: 20240251694Abstract: A method and system having instructions to perform actions include obtaining images of an agricultural environment including a first image comprising at least one background portion and one or more regions of interest, implementing a machine learning (ML) algorithm on a portion of the first image including a portion of the background portion and the one or more regions of interest, detecting a plurality of objects associated with a plurality of real-world objects in the agricultural environment in at least one region of interest in the one or more regions of interest of the first image including detecting a first object and detecting a second object, implementing a second algorithm on the portion of the first image comprising the first object to detect one or more divided features of the first object, tracking a feature of the one or more divided features across subsequent images as the moving platform traverses the agricultural environment, tracking the second object, and selecting a target action configuredType: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Dustin James Webb
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Publication number: 20240253163Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural treatment system and method of operation. The agricultural treatment system uses a spraying apparatus for spraying fluid at agricultural objects. The spraying apparatus is configured with a spraying head assembly that includes a moveable spraying head with one or more spraying tips a first motor assembly having a first motor interconnected with the spraying head assembly, wherein the one or more spraying tips pivot and rotate about an axis via a rotation of the first motor to emit a first fluid of the one or more fluids at the agricultural objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Patrick Christopher Leger, Wisit Jirattigalachote, Curtis Dale Garner
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Patent number: 12004443Abstract: Computer vision and autonomous identification of objects are used for the application of a treatment to an object. Robotics and mobility technologies navigate a delivery system which is configured to identify and apply an agricultural treatment to an identified agricultural object. The delivery system identifies a subset of payloads to provide one or more actions based on data representing a policy for one or more subsets of agricultural objects. The delivery system causes one or more cartridges to be charged based on the subset of payloads.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Curtis Dale Garner, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, Lorenzo Ibarria, Patrick Christopher Leger, Benjamin Rewis, Shi Yan
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Patent number: 11963473Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Curtis Dale Garner, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, Lorenzo Ibarria, Patrick Christopher Leger, Benjamin Rewis, Shi Yan
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Publication number: 20240114887Abstract: Various embodiments of apparatuses, methods, systems, and computer program products described herein are directed to a treatment system. An example apparatus includes a treatment apparatus having a first fluid source, one or more channels for delivering a first fluid of the first fluid source, and a treatment unit, the treatment unit having one or more fluid regulators, including a first fluid regulator configured to regulate a flow of the first fluid received by the treatment unit, a movable treatment head unit having one or more spraying tips, a first channel fluidly coupling the one or more spraying tips with the first fluid regulator, wherein the first fluid regulator controls a volume of fluid emitted from the one or more spraying tips, an one or more controllers disposed in the treatment unit configured to control the one or more fluid regulators.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Curtis Dale Garner, Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Patrick Christopher Leger, Wisit Jirattigalochote
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Patent number: 11951570Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The agricultural treatment system uses a treatment unit for spraying fluid at agricultural objects. The treatment unit is configured with a treatment head assembly that includes a moveable treatment head with one or more spraying tips. A first and second motor assembly are operated by the treatment unit to control the movement of the treatment head. The first motor assembly includes a first motor rotatable in a first rotational axis. A first linkage assembly is connected to the first motor and the treatment head assembly. The first linkage assembly is rotatable by the first motor. The second linkage assembly is rotatable by the second motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Patrick Christopher Leger, Curtis Dale Garner, Wisit Jirattigalochote
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Patent number: 11937524Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by the treatment system configured to implement a machine learning (ML) algorithm, one or more images of a region of an agricultural environment near the treatment system, wherein the one or more images are captured from the region of a real-world where agricultural target objects are expected to be present, determining one or more parameters for use with the ML algorithm, wherein at least one of the one or more parameters is based on one or more ML models related to identification of an agricultural object, determining a real-world target in the one or more images using the ML algorithm, wherein the ML algorithm is at least partly implemented using the one or more processors of the treatment system, and applying a treatment to the target by selectively activating the treatment mechanism based on a result of the determining the target.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Dustin James Webb
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Publication number: 20240074340Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously survey an agricultural environment. In some examples, a system can receive sensor data of a geographic boundary from one or more sensors onboard of the agricultural observation system, detect a plurality of external dynamic objects, a plurality of external static objects, one or more agricultural objects, or a combination thereof from the sensor data, determine a position of a component of the agricultural observation system relative to the plurality of external dynamic objects, the plurality of external static objects, the one or more agricultural objects, or a combination thereof, and generate a local map, in real time, via one or more processing units.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Curtis Dale Garner, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, Lorenzo Ibarria, Patrick Christopher Leger, Benjamin Rewis, Shi Yan
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Publication number: 20240057580Abstract: Various embodiments of methods, systems, and computer program products described herein are directed to a treatment system. An example method includes identifying a type of a first target agricultural object, based on the identified type of the first target agricultural object, determining a first spray profile for treating the first target agricultural object, sending instructions of a first treatment parameter to a treatment unit, and based on the first spray profile, activating the treatment unit to emit a first fluid at the first target agricultural object, wherein the first fluid regulator is moved to an opened position for an amount of time such that the first fluid is emitted, via the first spraying tip, as a first fluid projectile at the first target agricultural object for a first spray duration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Curtis Dale Garner, Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Patrick Christopher Leger, Wisit Jirattigalochote
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Publication number: 20240057502Abstract: A method implemented by a treatment system disposed on a vehicle, the treatment system having one or more processors, a storage, and a treatment mechanism, includes capturing a first image of a region of an agricultural environment, detecting, by implementing a first machine learning (ML) algorithm on a first portion of the first image, a presence of at least a portion of a first object in the first image, determining whether the first object detected is a treatment candidate, determining, upon determining that the first object is a treatment candidate, a first three dimensional (3D) location of at least a portion of the first object in the agricultural environment, and applying, a treatment to at least the portion of the first object by activating the treatment mechanism to interact with the first object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Dustin James Webb
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Publication number: 20230413798Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The agricultural treatment system may receive captured sensor data of an agricultural environment by one or more image capture devices, generate a first image from the captured sensor data, detect a first real-world agricultural object from the first image, determine a first pose of the first real-world agricultural object, identify the detected first real-world agricultural object as a new agricultural object or a preidentified agricultural object, and determine a treatment policy associated with the first real-world agricultural object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, John Phillip Hurliman, II, Wisit Jirattigalochote, Hasan Tafish
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Publication number: 20230404056Abstract: A method includes traversing, by the treatment system, along a path in an agricultural environment, receiving, by the treatment system, one or more sensor readings comprising one or more agricultural objects, identifying one or more objects of interest from the one or more agricultural objects by analyzing the one or more sensor readings, determining a first target object of the one or more objects of interest for treatment, selecting a treatment policy to treat the first target object, and activating the treatment mechanism to treat the first target object with the treatment policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger
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Patent number: 11844343Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The system uses a pump in combination with a fluid regulator to obtain and disperse fluid from the fluid tanks. The fluid regulator includes a fluid input port, a fluid output port and a fluid control valve. A first tube fluidly coupled from the fluid pump to the fluid input port. The system includes a moveable treatment head having one or more spraying tips, including a first spraying tip. A second tube is fluidly coupled from the fluid output port to the moveable treatment head. A system includes a controller configured to provide to the fluid regulator to open and close the fluid control valve to release an amount of the first fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Curtis Dale Garner, Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Patrick Christopher Leger, Wisit Jirattigalochote
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Patent number: 11812681Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Curtis Dale Garner, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, Lorenzo Ibarria, Patrick Christopher Leger, Benjamin Rewis, Shi Yan
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Publication number: 20230360392Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The agricultural treatment system may determine a first real-world geo-spatial location of the treatment system. The system can receive captured images depicting real-world agricultural objects of a geographic scene. The system can associate captured images with the determined geo-spatial location of the treatment system. The treatment system can identify, from a group of mapped and indexed images, images having a second real-word geo-spatial location that is proximate with the first real-world geo-spatial location. The treatment system can compare at least a portion of the identified images with at least a portion of the captured images. The treatment system can determine a target object and emit a fluid projectile at the target object using a treatment device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Andre Robert Daniel Michelin, John Phillip Hurliman, II, Wisit Jirattigalochote, Hasan Tafish
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Patent number: 11800862Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The system uses a pump in combination with a fluid regulator to obtain and disperse fluid from the fluid tanks. The fluid regulator includes a fluid input port, a fluid output port and a fluid control valve. A first tube fluidly coupled from the fluid pump to the fluid input port. The system includes a moveable treatment head having one or more spraying tips, including a first spraying tip. A second tube is fluidly coupled from the fluid output port to the moveable treatment head. A system includes a controller configured to provide to the fluid regulator to open and close the fluid control valve to release an amount of the first fluid.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Verdant Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Curtis Dale Garner, Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Patrick Christopher Leger, Wisit Jirattigalochote