ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,666, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTFLOW INC. (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for identifying condition of animal object based on image" was invented by Kwang Myung Jeon (Gwangju, South Korea) and In Chul Ryu (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-based animal object condition identification apparatus includes: a communication module that receives an image of an object; a memory that stores therein a program configured to extract animal condition information from the received image; and a processor that executes the program. The program extracts continuous animal detection information of ...