ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,710, issued on March 25.
"Service animal tracking evaluation system using metrics" was invented by Gordon Daniel Oke Templeton (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system measures tracking ability of a service animal using a location sensor to generate location data and a measurement unit measuring auxiliary data related to movement of the animal while tracking a known path. A computer calculates a rank metric representing a measure of similarity between animal location data from the location sensor and stored target data defining the known path. The computer also calculates an animal signature representative of a rela...