ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,527, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).
"Systems and methods for detecting eating patterns of a pet" was invented by Aletha Carson (Gaston, Ore.), David Allen (Charleston, S.C.) and Laura Prescott (Makawao, Hawaii).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for using historical pet eating data to determine changes in pet eating behavior is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of historical pet eating data records from a database, determining a subset of the plurality of historical pet eating data records, determining an expected distribution based on the subset of the pluralit...