ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,124, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) Ltd. (Netanya, Israel) and MERCK SHARP & DOHME ANIMAL HEALTH S.L. (Carbajosa de la Sagrada Salamanca, Spain).

"System and method for estimating greenhouse gas emissions in an environment housing an animal population" was invented by Eran Genzel (Netanya, Israel), Rotem Rabinovitz (Netanya, Israel), Doron Bar (Netanya, Israel) and Juan Pedro Campillo Beneitez (Carbajosa de la Sagrada Salamanca, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating greenhouse gas emission in an environment housing an animal population, the system comprising: one or more monitoring device...