ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,253, issued on June 2, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany).

"Method and assembly for in-ovo sexing of bird eggs" was invented by Gerald Steiner (Schwarzenberg, Germany), Edmund Koch (Dresden, Germany), Christian Schnabel (Dresden, Germany), Grit Preusse (Radebeul, Germany) and Roberta Galli (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to the technical fields of bioanalytics and agriculture, and relates to a method and to an assembly for in-ovo sexing of bird eggs. The aim of the present invention is to provide a method and an assembly by means of which in-ovo sexing of bird eggs...