US Patent Issued to GEPE GEIMUPLAST on Oct. 20 for "Animal ear tag and method for producing such an animal ear tag and use of an antimicrobial additive for producing an animal ear tag and use of an animal ear tag with an antimicrobial additive" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,513, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GEPE GEIMUPLAST GMBH (Farchant, Germany).

"Animal ear tag and method for producing such an animal ear tag and use of an antimicrobial additive for producing an animal ear tag and use of an animal ear tag with an antimicrobial additive" was invented by Andreas Wild (Bad Tolz, Germany), Markus Helmut Durmann (Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany), Adrian Paul Koch (Ilmenau, Germany) and Johann Schopf (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal ear tag for marking livestock, in particular cattle, pigs, goats and sheep. The animal ear tag comprises a plastic, wherein an antim...