ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,387, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nutreco IP Assets B.V. (Boxmeer, Netherlands).

"System and method of formulating an animal feed composition" was invented by Neil Jaworski (Boxmeer, Netherlands), Coenraad Henricus Maria Smits (Boxmeer, Netherlands) and Ronald Busink (Boxmeer, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for formulating a feed composition for an animal is described, comprising (i) a feed ingredient data storage, the feed ingredients comprising nutrients having first, second and third digestion rates different from each other, (ii) a nutrient regime data storage that has stored therein a nutrient regime fo...