ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,551, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Radio Systems Corp. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Animal tracking system using high-accuracy positioning" was invented by Pete Moore (Knoxville, Tenn.), Marc Brush (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ben Prothro (Knoxville, Tenn.), Kenneth Wacasey (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rick Seltzer (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Kaleigh Veca Smith (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal tracking system is provided which include various features that are enabled using satellite-based positioning systems, but further are enabled by fine accuracy position detection, such as may be made available through use of realtime kinematic ...