US Patent Issued to M3SEN on Dec. 16 for "Technique for recognizing whether a sow has completed farrowing of a newborn piglet" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,773, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to M3SEN Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Technique for recognizing whether a sow has completed farrowing of a newborn piglet" was invented by Man Hyeong Seo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Ki Hoon Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing whether a sow has completed farrowing of a newborn piglet including: acquiring video data in which at least part of the sow is captured from an external device through a communication unit; recognizing whether the sow has completed farrowing of the newborn piglet based on a change in output values of each of a plurality ...