US Patent Issued to Mars on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for recommending a food product based on characteristics of an animal" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,091, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for recommending a food product based on characteristics of an animal" was invented by Gordon Craig Cameron (Nashville, Tenn.), Richard Fulton Butterwick (Leicestershire, Great Britain), Amanda Davies (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Sally Perea (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing one or more personalized pet product recommendations based on a microbiome result and pet metadata to a user is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by one or more processors, the pet metadata and a pet fecal sample fro...