ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,379, issued on July 21, was assigned to IdentiGEN Ltd. (Dublin).
"System and method for tracing members of an animal population" was invented by Yuval Rapaport-Rom (Netanya, Israel), Robert William Mitchell (Surrey, Great Britain) and Matteo Ratti (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracing members of an animal population throughout a process including moving at least some of the members, between (a) a plurality of physically separate locations and (b) one or more virtual stations, in a given order, the system comprising: a data repository comprising one or more location change records; and a processing circu...