ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,293, issued on Sept. 9.

"System and method of scoring animals" was invented by Charles Mcfarland (Tremonton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a smart device, cloud platform, and an application on the smart device. The smart device via the application may communicate with the cloud platform, which in turn, communicates with the smart device. The application allows a user to upload or capture images of antlers, horns, etc. and select the type of animal to be scored. Once the image is selected, it is sent to the cloud platform, where it is broken into separate cropped sections. Each section may contain a tine and o...