ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,625, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Ruminant animal monitoring system" was invented by Xiangyu Song (Maassluis, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system and method for automatically monitoring a ruminant animal. The system comprises a 3D camera system that obtains images from a region of interest, in particular the paralumbar fossa. An image processor determines the surface curvature in the region of interest, as a function of time. Based on the frequency with which this function attains local maxima, a health indication for the animal is generated."
The pa...