US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Aug. 12 for "System and method for supplying sustenance to an animal species" (Dutch, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,931, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for supplying sustenance to an animal species" was invented by Harry Broers ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Marc Andre De Samber (Lommel, Belgium), Aaron Benjamin Stephan (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Fetze Pijlman (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) for supplying sustenance to animals is provided, comprising a sustenance unit (110), a light source (120) configured to illuminate the sustenance unit, and a sensor arrangement (130) configured to detect a movement of the sustenance unit, a position of an...