ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,672, issued on March 31, was assigned to FLOX AB (Stockholm).

"Repellence system and repellence method for repelling animals" was invented by Matteo Tadiello (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Marco Moletta (Sundbyberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repellence system and method for repelling animals includes an imaging device arranged to generate image data from a railway track, one or more deterrence devices arranged to carry out deterrence actions for repelling animals and a repellence sub-system having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The repellence sub-system bei...