ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,040, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUANTURI OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and system for controlling daily feed of animals" was invented by Nadine Pesonen (Siuntio, Finland) and Teppo Veijonen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for controlling daily feed of animals is disclosed. The method includes: measuring (302) repeatedly over a time period, by a plurality of stand-alone probes inserted inside stored forage, a temperature of the stored forage; determining (314) a quality of the stored forage based on the repeatedly measured temperature of the stored forage over the time period; and after determinin...