ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,787, issued on Feb. 24.
"Wireless location assisted zone guidance system predictive ramped stimulation" was invented by Rodney P. Landers (Stillwater, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zone-based guidance system provides stimulation indicative of a wayward dog being in an assisted guidance region other than a safe zone. If the dog remains in the same assisted guidance region other than a safe zone and is determined thereby to potentially being non-responsive to the alerts and warnings, the dog's intentions are predicted based upon some combination of instantaneous movement, biometrics, and immediately previous travel. Positive f...