MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517063238 A) filed by Ekaterra Research And Development Uk Limited, Bedfordshire, U.K., on July 2, for 'tea agriculture systems.'
Inventor(s) include Burgess, Paul; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Holden, Ann; Sakrabani, Ruben; Corstanje, Ron; Waine, Toby; De Silva, Jacquie; and Redfern, Sally.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A computer-implemented system for managing tea harvesting, comprising: a data store, the data store containing data defining of one or more growing regions of a tea plantation; a growth and yield prediction module which is configured, for each of the growing regions of the tea plantation defined in the data store, to model a plurality of tea plants within the respective growing region, and thereby predicting: a growth of each tea plant within the respective growing region over a period of time and so a yield of each growing region of the tea plantation when harvested; wherein the growth and yield prediction module is further configured to predict a recommended time for harvest to provide a desired quality of tea and desired yield of tea; and a user interface module, configured to provide, to a user, the predicted yield of each growing region of the tea plantation when harvested."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 19, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/025545.
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