ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,866, issued on May 20, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).
"Computer vision-based feeding monitoring and method therefor" was invented by Joao Reboucas Dorea (Madison, Wis.), Sek Cheong (Madison, Wis.) and Guilherme Jordao de Magalhaes Rosa (Middleton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure are directed to methods and apparatuses involving the characterization of livestock feeding functions. As may be implemented as or with one or more embodiments herein, networked cameras are configured to capture images of a livestock feed area and machine-vision logic circuitry characterize...