ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,025, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Animal detecting device, system, method and computer program" was invented by Salvatore Finatti (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Shaun Lee (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Antonio Avitabile (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal detecting device includes circuitry configured to: obtain one or more images; perform image processing on the one or more images, wherein the image processing includes detecting the presence of an animal in one of the one or more images, produce, when the presence of an animal is detected,...