US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on Feb. 10 for "Camera device for monitoring and recognising animals or portions thereof, and associated livestock shed" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,706, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Camera device for monitoring and recognising animals or portions thereof, and associated livestock shed" was invented by Piet Boes (Maassluis, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera device for observing and recognizing a livestock animal in a shed environment. The camera includes a housing with an outer surface and with a light transmitting opening, an optics for forming an image of the environment, a light-sensitive sensor provided in the housing for recording the formed image, an image processing device for processing the recorded image...