ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,717, issued on March 25, was assigned to WUHAN UNITED IMAGING LIFE SCIENCE INSTRUMENT Co. LTD (Wuhan, China).

"Method and system for scanning animal and computer device" was invented by Ying Chang (Wuhan, China), Cheng-Yuan Peng (Wuhan, China), Li Chen (Wuhan, China) and Hai-Liang Ke (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses a method, apparatus and system for scanning an animal. The method includes obtaining a species of an animal to be scanned, identifying a type of an animal cabin where the animal to be scanned is located, and determining whether the species of the animal to be scanned matches the type...