A patent review in the field of precision agriculture
At the premises of Federal State-funded Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Kuban State Agrarian University» was created a center for forecasting and monitoring of scientific and technological development in the field of precision farming technologies, including automation and robotics. The center will serve as a permanent communication platform for interaction between universities, scientific organizations and companies of the appropriate field. A patent review was carried out to assess the equipment quality level. As a result, over 10 thousand patent documents were analyzed, of which more than one thousand from 25 countries over the past six years were selected.