ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,347, issued on May 13, was assigned to RapID Lab Inc. (San Francisco).
"Animal identification system and related methods" was invented by Mark Swope (San Francisco), Bretton Mark Swope (San Francisco) and Vanessa Lai (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a system includes a tag including a panel defining an inner face; an outer face opposite the inner face and comprising a digital optical identifier; and a set of perforations interposed between the digital optical identifier and a perimeter of the panel; a tag housing molded around the perimeter of the panel and through the set of perforations in the panel; d...