ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,672, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).
"Image-based assessment of health characteristics" was invented by Joao Ricardo Reboucas Dorea (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to assessing health characteristics of livestock. As may be implemented with one or more embodiments herein, digital images of a plurality of animals are collected and segmented by partitioning the image into respective regions of pixels. For each of the collected images, the segmented version of the image is associated with a specific one of the animals an...