US Patent Issued to Duke University on Feb. 10 for "System and method for three-dimensional kinematic profiling of animal models" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,700, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"System and method for three-dimensional kinematic profiling of animal models" was invented by Isaac Weaver (Durham, N.C.), James Roach (Durham, N.C.), Timothy Dunn (Durham, N.C.) and Michael Tadross (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An observation chamber for three-dimensional kinematic profiling of subject animals. One example system for analyzing free-moving animal subject behavior includes a housing, a transparent arena configured to hold a subject, a camera mounted below the arena, and a mirror system configured to reflect multiple images of the s...