ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,882, issued on June 3, was assigned to ICKOVIC & BLISS INC. (Henderson, Nev.).
"Systems, methods, and program products for digital pet identification" was invented by Thomas S. Ickovic (Henderson, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying and tracking pets by use of a pet identification tag or image recognition techniques are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, a mobile computing device communicates with a pet identification tag over a near-field communication link and a remote server over a wireless communication link. The mobile computing device is configured to identify a pet based on a unique identif...