US Patent Issued to GOOD EMBRYO TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Livestock fertilized-egg recovery device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,848, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GOOD EMBRYO TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hokkaido, Japan) and NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS (Tokyo).

"Livestock fertilized-egg recovery device" was invented by Yoshito Aoyagi (Kato-gun, Japan) and Makoto Takeuchi (Kato-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is novel means that enables collection of embryos from the uterus of a living livestock animal, especially cattle, easily in a short time with the same accuracy as that achieved by a skilled technician. A livestock embryo collection apparatus of the present invention comprises: two syringes; a liquid transfe...