US Patent Issued to The State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center) on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring food intake of livestock animals" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,116, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center) (Rishon-LeZion, Israel).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring food intake of livestock animals" was invented by Ilan Halachmi (Kfar-Yehoshua, Israel), Victor Bloch (Jerusalem), Harel Levit (Nahalal, Israel) and Ehud Ram (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring individual food intake of a livestock animal includes a calibration system configured to measure weight or volume of food intake of an animal over a pre-defined period of time and to ca...