ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,673, issued on May 26, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).

"System for determining a walked distance of an animal within a barn" was invented by Peter Bahlenberg (Tumba, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for determining a respective walked distance of animals in a barn during a predetermined time period. The system includes a Real-Time Location System, a database storing historical trajectories of the animals and a processing controller. The processing controller is configured to determine the walked distance of the animal by establishing a walked trajectory based on obtained data entities, and store the tra...