US Patent Issued to Ricardo Antonello on Nov. 3 for "Equipment and method for sexing and analyzing the individual characteristics of birds" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,089, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ricardo Antonello (Santa Catarina, Brazil).

"Equipment and method for sexing and analyzing the individual characteristics of birds" was invented by Ricardo Antonello (Santa Catarina, Brazil) and Gregori Harvey Antunes (Santa Catarina, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention, which belongs to the poultry farming sector, refers to equipment to transport birds along a conveyor belt system, and direct then to image capture heads These units are equipped with warm air blowers, warming the birds and causing them, at the same time, to open their wings just as they enter the head, which allo...