ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,399, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).

"Electronic device for identifying an animal and related methods" was invented by Rickard Andersson (Malmo, Sweden), Marc Ahlse (Bjarred, Sweden), John-Henry Markbo (Lund, Sweden) and Johan Wadman (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic device configured to obtain first sensor data from a first sensor of a first type. The first sensor data has two-dimensional image data representative of the bovine animal in an environment. The electronic device is configured to obtain second sensor data from a second sensor of a second type. Th...