US Patent Issued to Unified Information Devices on Feb. 3 for "Animal motion and temperature monitoring" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,660, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Unified Information Devices LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Animal motion and temperature monitoring" was invented by Matthew Ruiter (Deerfield, Ill.) and Craig Jordan (Lake Villa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and method for identifying and monitoring animals in a confined space. A tracking apparatus is provided in proximity to the confined space that defines a plurality of separate individual tracking regions for the confined space. Each of a plurality of animals to be disposed in the confined space is associated respectively with a detection component operable to identify and ...