US Patent Issued to NUtech Ventures on Dec. 16 for "Materials and methods for long-term tracking of group-housed livestock" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,560, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Materials and methods for long-term tracking of group-housed livestock" was invented by Eric T. Psota (Lincoln, Neb.), Lance C. Perez (Lincoln, Neb.), Ty Schmidt (Eagle, Neb.) and Benny Mote (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented method of tracking animals is provided. Such a method typically includes recognizing, by using at least one data processor, individual animals in images of a plurality of the animals; and tracking the animals using a probabilistic tracking-by-detection process. In another aspect, a...