ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,565, issued on July 28.

"Animal training device with position recognizing controller" was invented by Brian Claeys (Grapevine, Texas), Travis Lux (Irving, Texas) and Greg Van Curen (Fremont, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal training device includes: a housing; an imaging device associated with the housing to capture an image and output an imaging signal corresponding to the captured image; an audio output device associated with the housing to receive an audio signal and produce a training sound responsively to the received audio signal; and a controller operably coupled to the imaging device and the audio output device. ...