ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,852, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to O2M Technologies LLC (Chicago).

"Animal temperature control apparatus, system, and methods thereof" was invented by Mrignayani Kotecha (Chicago), Boris Meerovich Epel (Chicago) and Marcelo Gutierrez-Miranda (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods of controlling the temperature of an animal being imaged under anesthesia. For example, the animal is placed under anesthesia on an animal bed apparatus within an imaging system, the temperature of a conditioned air flow from the air injector via a temperature control apparatus is measured using an ...