US Patent Issued to ST REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on April 1 for "Animal monitoring system" (Colorado, Wisconsin, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,987, issued on April 1, was assigned to ST REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Navasota, Texas).

"Animal monitoring system" was invented by Nicholas P. Rettedal (Berthoud, Colo.), Stephen M. Weilnau (Greeley, Colo.), Scott R. Cockroft (Greeley, Colo.), Billy J. Yaeger (Gilbert, Ariz.), Jerry A. Hornick (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and John B. Lienau (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal monitoring device configured as a bolus for oral administration to reside in an animal's stomach. The bolus has a substantially inert solid body with a hollow inside space to receive the animal monitoring device. The animal monitoring device inclu...