US Patent Issued to Big Dutchman International on March 31 for "Poultry weighing scale and method for the gender-specific weighing of poultry" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,827, issued on March 31, was assigned to Big Dutchman International GmbH (Vechta, Germany).

"Poultry weighing scale and method for the gender-specific weighing of poultry" was invented by Karsten Gerhard Fuchs (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A poultry weighing scale for gender-specific weighing in poultry farming includes a weighing plate which is independently accessible for poultry, a weighing module, which is configured to detect the weight of one or more birds which are present on the weighing plate, and a poultry identification unit, which is configured to identify an individual or more birds and their gender of ...