ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,969, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).
"Systems and methods for nose-based pet identification" was invented by Alexander Fry (Whitchurch, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a pet via an image of a nose of the pet includes receiving at least one image comprising the nose of the pet, identifying the nose of the pet and nostrils of the nose in the at least one image, comparing a degree of alignment of the nostrils of the nose with a first threshold value, in accordance with the degree of alignment of the nostrils meeting the threshold value, determining a quality metric ofr ...