Ut-battelle, Inc.

Andrzej Nycz

Lonnie J Love

Robert J Warmack

Charles L Britton, Jr

Xiaohan Yang

Vincent C Paquit

Steven Shane Frank

Udaya C Kalluri

James R Younkin

Chris A Pickett

Michael Joseph Kuhn

Richard A Willems

Samuel C Leach

Scott L Stewart

Harold Walters

A method and a system for automated plant surveillance and manipulation are provided. Pursuant to the method and the system, images of target plants are obtained through a machine vision system having multiple cameras. The obtained images of the target plants are processed to determine tissue candidates of the target plants and to determine a position and an orientation of each tissue candidate. A tool is manipulated, based on the position and the orientation of each tissue candidate, to excise each tissue candidate to obtain tissue samples. The tissue samples are transported for subsequently manipulation including live processing of the tissue samples or destructive processing of the tissue samples.

Method and system for automated plant surveillance and manipulation

Sensing devices, systems and methods for securing articles against tampering using a unique magnetic field signature measured at two different times are provided. One or more sensing devices are secured to a ferrous surface portion of a target container. The sensing devices are secured using a plurality of magnets. The unique magnetic field signature sensed by a sensing device is produced by a combination of the plurality of magnets of the sensing device and the ferrous surface portion of the target container and earth's magnetic field. The two different times being one of a baseline measurement session and one of an observation measurement session. An observation measurement session may be triggered by a shock event or periodically.

Magnetic field sensing for tamper-indicating devices

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Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Andrzej Nycz