ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,243, issued on April 15, was assigned to Neurocage Systems Ltd. (Lethbridge, Canada).
"Systems and methods of homecage monitoring" was invented by Edgar Josue Bermudez Contreras (Lethbridge, Canada), Robert James Sutherland (Lethbridge, Canada), Majid Mohajerani (Lethbridge, Canada) and Surjeet Singh (Lethbridge, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer controlled systems and methods of an automated homecage monitoring system predict a state of an animal and of its homecage. The prediction of the state of the animal may be based on a pose estimate of the animal, and at least one sensor input from an at least one sensor. The pose...