ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,976, issued on May 26, was assigned to WiseEye Technology LLC (Denham Springs, La.).

"Species pattern evaluation" was invented by Harold Monk (Pride, La.), Jason Ray (Denham Springs, La.) and Darryl Monk (Pride, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of evaluating animal activity are disclosed including examples running artificial intelligence classification routines. Predictive atmospheric and celestial data may be used together with predictive artificial intelligence data analysis to obtain probabilities of certain animals being present at certain times. The evaluations may occur in conjunction with the operation of a feeder suc...