ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,584, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Pixxize GmbH (Lindern, Germany).
"System and method for recording animals" was invented by Alexander Borries (Cologne, Germany) and Bernhard Ulrich Borries (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system and a method for recording animals with a 3-D camera unit which is designed for producing at least one three-dimensional image of an animal, a computer unit which is designed for determining a weight of the animal based on the at least one three-dimensional image and with a data memory, in which weight data can be saved for each animal."
The patent was filed o...