ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,805, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tractive Inc. (Seattle).

"System, method, and apparatus for pet condition detection" was invented by Aletha Carson (Portland, Ore.), Robert Donald Chambers (Seattle) and Nathanael Christian Yoder (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing sensor data captured by sensors, wherein the sensor data is associated with a first pet, detecting activities of the first pet within a specified time period based on the sensor data, determining health indicators of the first pet based on one or more of the activities, wherein the health indicators are based on ...