US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Animal behavior recording device, animal behavior recording method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,872, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Hokkaido, Japan).

"Animal behavior recording device, animal behavior recording method, and program" was invented by Yukako Nakai (Tokyo), Kunio Odaka (Tokyo), Tomofumi Kise (Tokyo), Masayuki Fukushima (Tokyo), Hirokazu Narui (Tokyo), Takayuki Ishii (Tokyo), Miku Yamasaki (Tokyo) and Koichiro Ueda (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This animal behavior recording device is provided with a processing unit which acquires animal behavior information, that is, information indicating the behavior of ...