ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,632, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for analyzing meting behavior of an animal species" was invented by Marc Andre De Samber (Lommel, Belgium), Sri Andari Husen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Vladimir Ossin (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) for analyzing mating behavior of an animal species, comprising: an image-capturing device (110) configured to capture a plurality of time-successive image frames, and a processor (120), wherein the system is configured to detect and track at least one male (130) and female (140) of an animal sp...