US Patent Issued to Cargill on June 23 for "Automated poultry or livestock welfare tracking" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,800, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Automated poultry or livestock welfare tracking" was invented by Emre Eftelioglu (Puyallup, Wash.), Hugo Jansen (Marq en Baroeul, France) and Zeinab Takbiri (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various proxies can be used to qualitatively or quantitatively assess welfare of a poultry flock. For example, as shown and described herein, one or more of a video-based monitoring technique or audio-based monitoring technique can be used. Such monitoring can include a video-based (e.g., image based) technique where indicia of movement of individual membe...