US Patent Issued to Protect Animals With Satellites on March 17 for "Corrective collar utilizing geolocation technology" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,546, issued on March 17, was assigned to Protect Animals With Satellites LLC (N.J.).

"Corrective collar utilizing geolocation technology" was invented by Kenneth Scott Ehrman (Upper Saddle River, N.J.) and Michael Ehrman (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes a pet collar that can be configured to determine its geolocational position and evaluate that position with respect to the geo-fence of a predetermined, geo-fenced "safe" zone. If the collar determines that its position is inside a safe zone but is near the geo-fence, the collar may be configured to provide a warning correction. If the co...