US Patent Issued to Hill's Pet Nutrition on April 7 for "Systems and methods for determining data relating to an animal using a rechargeable device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,821, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for determining data relating to an animal using a rechargeable device" was invented by Susan Wernimont (Lawrence, Kan.), Jodi Vondran (Wamego, Kan.) and Robin Thompson (Northumberland, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for tracking an animal comprising-for example: an electronic device configured to be coupled to an animal, the electronic device comprising: one or more sensors comprising at least one of an accelerometer, a gyroscope, or a magnetometer, the one or more senso...