US Patent Issued to HALTER USA on July 7 for "Apparatus to guide animals and method therefor" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,640, issued on July 7, was assigned to HALTER USA INC (San Francisco).

"Apparatus to guide animals and method therefor" was invented by Callum Woodhouse (Auckland, New Zealand) and Peter Nieuwenhuizen (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to moving animals to a new location. More particularly but not exclusively, it relates a wearable device to send a stimulus to guide an animal from an initial location to a target location, where the journey between the two locations comprises a path that the animal may be hesitant to transit, and adjusting the stimulus accordingly."

The patent was filed...