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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Monsanto Technology Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Govind Chaudhary, St. Louis, MO (US);
Anju Gupta, St. Louis, MO (US);
Kolbyn S. Joy, St. Louis, MO (US);
John J. Kotyk, St. Louis, MO (US);
Randall K. Rader, St. Louis, MO (US);
Richard H. Sheetz, St. Louis, MO (US);
Brad D. White, St. Louis, MO (US);
MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A system for analyzing intact cotton, wherein the system comprises an X-ray scanner system and a plurality of sample containers, wherein at least one seed cotton sample container is structured and operable to retain a respective one of a plurality of intact cotton samples. The system additionally comprises a sample support platform that is structured and operable to move the plurality of sample containers past an image data generation assembly of the X-ray scanner system. The system further comprises a computer based system that is structured and operable to execute image analysis software to determine at least one metric of at least one of the intact cotton samples.