US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO Co. on May 5 for "Method, apparatus, and program for evaluation of any one or both of health state and growth state of livestock animal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,472, issued on May 5, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus, and program for evaluation of any one or both of health state and growth state of livestock animal" was invented by Takayuki Tanaka (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuko Susa (Kawasaki, Japan), Tetsuya Takimoto (Kawasaki, Japan), Yosuke Tsuneyoshi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Makoto Bannai (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method, which includes an evaluating step of evaluating at least one item of growth potential, nutrition state of a protein, utilization efficiency of an amino acid, glucose metabolism, stress, appetite, feed effi...