ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,878, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sports Data Labs Inc. (Royal Oak, Mich.).

"Animal data compliance system and method" was invented by Vivek Khare (Cupertino, Calif.), Mark Gorski (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Stan Mimoto (Bethel Island, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal data compliance system includes one or more sources of animal data from one or more targeted individuals wherein the animal data is transmitted electronically. A collecting computing device gathers the animal data. One or more rules related to at least a portion of the animal data are created or modified based upon one or more terms. The one or more rules ...