ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,538, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MARS Inc. (McLean, Va.).
"Methods for predicting equine weight loss propensity" was invented by Patricia Ann Harris (Leicestershire, Great Britain), Philippa Kate Taverner (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Caroline McGregor Argo (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Charles James Newbold (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and David Hugh Grove-White (Gwynedd, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods of predicting the weight loss propensity of an animal of the genus Equus, through the assessment of various markers in a sample obtained from the animal. Such markers include fermentation pr...