US Patent Issued to RapID Lab on Dec. 23 for "System and method for identifying, tracking, and monitoring behaviors of laboratory animals within an animal cage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,881, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to RapID Lab Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for identifying, tracking, and monitoring behaviors of laboratory animals within an animal cage" was invented by Bretton Mark Swope (San Francisco), Alexander Spindel (San Francisco) and Kenneth Beres (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for animal identification and tracking includes, during a dark cycle: illuminating an interior of an animal cage with light outside of a visible light range; and capturing a first image of the interior of the animal cage. The method also includes: detecting a first identification tag in the fi...