ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,571, issued on July 28.

"System for an iot device for tracking health and location of livestock" was invented by Neil Charles Helfrich (Alberta, Canada) and Sheldon Troy Charles Archibald (Alberta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a livestock monitoring system utilizing firmware and computer-readable instructions for IoT devices. It tracks the health and location of livestock by monitoring their temperature and adjusting the frequency of data transmission accordingly. When the temperature is within normal ranges, data is sent once per hour; for slightly elevated temperatures, data transmission increases t...