Patents by Inventor Francis Ebong

Francis Ebong 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: 11991946
    Abstract: Implementations are disclosed for adaptively adjusting various parameters of equipment in unpredictable terrain, such as agricultural fields. In various implementations, edge computing device(s) may obtain a first image captured by vision sensor(s) transported across an agricultural field by a vehicle. The first image may depict plant(s) growing in the agricultural area. The edge computing device(s) may process the first image based on a machine learning model to generate agricultural inference(s) about the plant(s) growing in the agricultural area. The edge computing device(s) may determine a quality metric for the agricultural inference(s). While the vehicle continues to travel across the agricultural field, and based on the quality metric: the edge computing device(s) may trigger one or more hardware adjustments to one or more of the vision sensors, or one or more adjustments in an operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MINERAL EARTH SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Yaroshenko, Gabriella Levine, Elliott Grant, Daniel Ribeiro Silva, Linda Kanu, Francis Ebong
  • Publication number: 20240112282
    Abstract: Implementations are described herein for leveraging an agricultural knowledge graph to generate messages automatically. In various implementations, an agricultural event may trigger proactive performance of one or more of the following operations. Nodes of the agricultural knowledge graph may be identified as related to the agricultural event, including field node(s) representing subject agricultural field(s) to which the agricultural event is relevant and other node(s) connected to one or more of the field nodes by edge(s). Machine learning model(s) may be accessed based on the identified nodes and/or the edges that connect the identified nodes. Data relevant to the subject agricultural field(s) may be retrieved from data source(s) controlled by an agricultural entity and processed based on the machine learning model(s) to generate inference(s) about the subject agricultural field(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Yuan, Hong Wu, Yujing Qian, Francis Ebong, Elliott Grant, Ngozi Kanu, Bodi Yuan, Chunfeng Wen, Chen Cao, Yueqi Li
  • Publication number: 20240028915
    Abstract: Implementations are described herein for integrating phenotyping machine learning (ML) models with an agricultural knowledge graph (AKG) to facilitate streamlined and flexible phenotypic inferences. In various implementations, the AKG may be traversed based on input including image(s) of crops growing in an agricultural plot until a destination node is reached. The AKG may include a phenotypic taxonomy of nodes representing a taxonomic hierarchy of organisms, with the destination node corresponding to a level of the phenotypic taxonomy that is commensurate in scope with the input. The phenotypic taxonomy of nodes may provide access to a corresponding taxonomy of phenotyping ML models, each trained to generate phenotypic inference(s) at a specificity that corresponds to a level of the phenotypic taxonomy. The crop image(s) may be processed using the phenotyping ML model that is accessible via the destination node to generate phenotypic inference(s) about the agricultural plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Yuan, Hong Wu, Yujing Qian, Francis Ebong, Elliott Grant, Ngozi Kanu, Bodi Yuan, Chunfeng Wen, Chen Cao, Yueqi Li
  • Publication number: 20230102576
    Abstract: Implementations are disclosed for adaptively adjusting various parameters of equipment in unpredictable terrain, such as agricultural fields. In various implementations, edge computing device(s) may obtain a first image captured by vision sensor(s) transported across an agricultural field by a vehicle. The first image may depict plant(s) growing in the agricultural area. The edge computing device(s) may process the first image based on a machine learning model to generate agricultural inference(s) about the plant(s) growing in the agricultural area. The edge computing device(s) may determine a quality metric for the agricultural inference(s). While the vehicle continues to travel across the agricultural field, and based on the quality metric: the edge computing device(s) may trigger one or more hardware adjustments to one or more of the vision sensors, or one or more adjustments in an operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Sergey Yaroshenko, Gabriella Levine, Elliott Grant, Daniel Ribeiro Silva, Linda Kanu, Francis Ebong
  • Publication number: 20230102495
    Abstract: Implementations are disclosed for adaptively reallocating computing resources of resource-constrained devices between tasks performed in situ by those resource-constrained devices. In various implementations, while the resource-constrained device is transported through an agricultural area, computing resource usage of the resource-constrained device ma may be monitored. Additionally, phenotypic output generated by one or more phenotypic tasks performed onboard the resource-constrained device may be monitored. Based on the monitored computing resource usage and the monitored phenotypic output, a state may be generated and processed based on a policy model to generate a probability distribution over a plurality of candidate reallocation actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Yuan, Rhishikesh Pethe, Francis Ebong