ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,827, issued on April 7, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Monitoring system for individual growth monitoring of livestock animals" was invented by Ingrid Elisabeth Maria Den Uijl (Maassluis, Netherlands), Marketa Juzlova (Prague) and Tibor Szolar (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A growth monitoring system, and method, for livestock animals includes a barn environment that has a floor with bedding material, a 3D camera with a downward looking field-of-view, in which an animal may be present during a visit, to obtain repeatedly a 3D image of the field-of-view, and an image processor to extract a 3D point...