ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,572, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CAN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Energy-based animal nutrition modeling and formulation systems" was invented by David A. Cook (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Christian De Santis (Lombardy, Italy), Adel El-Mowafi (Hafrsfjord, Norway), Brian J. Knudson (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Kari Juhani Ruohonen (Turku, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various approaches for determining an animal feed formulation. In some implementations, a system may obtain data that provides characteristics of an animal population located at a site. The system may identify a target growth schedule for the an...