US 11,737,443 B2
Methods for deploying biosentinels to agricultural fields and monitoring biotic and abiotic stresses in crops remotely
Shely Aronov, San Francisco, CA (US); Roderick Kumimoto, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ari Kornfeld, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to InnerPlant, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by InnerPlant, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/592,275.
Application 17/592,275 is a continuation of application No. 17/217,840, filed on Mar. 30, 2021, granted, now 11,602,141.
Application 17/217,840 is a continuation of application No. 16/908,526, filed on Jun. 22, 2020, granted, now 10,986,827, issued on Apr. 27, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/864,401, filed on Jun. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0151215 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. A01M 1/02 (2006.01); A01N 63/14 (2020.01); G06Q 50/02 (2012.01); A01G 13/10 (2006.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC A01M 1/026 (2013.01) [A01G 13/10 (2013.01); A01N 63/14 (2020.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
accessing a feed of images of regions of an agricultural environment comprising:
a first set of sentinel plants of a sentinel plant type located in a first region of the agricultural environment, sentinel plants of the sentinel plant type comprising a first promoter-reporter pair, in a set of promoter-reporter pairs, configured to signal pressures of a first stressor, in a set of stressors, at sentinel plants of the sentinel plant type; and
a second set of sentinel plants of the sentinel plant type located in a second region of the agricultural environment;
interpreting a first pressure of the first stressor in the first region of the agricultural environment during a first time period based on a first set of features extracted from a first subset of images, in the feed of images, of the first set of sentinel plants and captured during the first time period;
interpreting a second pressure of the first stressor in the second region during the first time period based on a second set of features extracted from a second subset of images, in the feed of images, of the second set of sentinel plants and captured during the first time period; and
generating a first pressure map depicting pressures of the set of stressors in the agricultural environment during the first time period based on the first pressure in the first region and the second pressure in the second region.