ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,999, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to EVONTA-TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Dresden, Germany).
"Device for examining hatching eggs" was invented by Bjorn Fischer (Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany) and Sven Meiner (Brand-Erbisdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for examining hatching eggs with a transport device, light sources and cameras in connection with a data processing system. This is distinguished in particular by the fact that the presence of embryos in hatching eggs and their sex can be determined. For this purpose, the transport device has holders arranged next to one another for accommodating hatch...