ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,866, issued on June 3, 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: "A system and method which functions to automatically monitor a ruminant animal. The system includes a 3D camera system that obtains images from a region of interest. 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 patent was filed on May 4, 2020, under Applicat...