ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,449, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).

"Animal marking control system and method" was invented by Alon Fichman (Netanya, Israel) and Mordehay Cohen (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal marking control system includes: at least one transceiver communicatively coupled to a remote base station (BS) and configured to exchange data with the BS, the transceiver having a plurality of operation modes (OMs), each of the OMs defining a respective frequency of communication (FoC) of the transceiver with the BS; a marker unit configured to selectively mark the animal; a processing ci...