US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Animal training device that controls stimulus using proportional pressure-based input" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,113, issued on April 14.

"Animal training device that controls stimulus using proportional pressure-based input" was invented by Chad R. James (Redmond, Ore.), Stephen G. Haynes (Halifax, Canada) and Roger H. Hess (Lesueur, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for training animals includes a hand-held device and a remote device, where the remote device applies a stimulus when a user presses a button or trigger on the hand-held device. The amount of pressure applied is measured by a pressure sensitive transducer and transformed into proportional transducer signals. These transducer signals are transmitted to the remote devic...