ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,642, issued on July 7, was assigned to UNIAI CORP. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Poultry weight measurement and weight estimation system" was invented by Seung Hwan Baek (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Yong Joon Cho (Nonsan-si, South Korea) and Jong Sik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to provide a poultry weight measurement and weight estimation system, which can estimate weight by considering the unique size of each poultry individual and does not interrupt the transit of poultry. To accomplish the objective, the poultry weight measurement and weight estimation system accor...