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US 11,054,298 B2Granted
Animal identification and data association
AssigneeScale Tec, Ltd.
InventorNicholas Von Muenster
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Abstract
A scale controller is in communication with a weighing scale for receiving a weight signal, translating the weight signal into a weight for the animal, receiving a wireless identification signal from a transmitter on the animal, translating the wireless identification signal into an animal identification value, associating the weight of the animal with the animal identification value, and transmitting to a data storage unit a data packet containing the weight of the animal and the animal identification value.
Claims12
An animal weighing system comprising:
- a weighing scale for translating a weight of the animal into a weight signal;
- and
- a scale controller in communication with the weighing scale configured for:
- receiving the weight signal,
- translating the weight signal into a weight for the animal,
- receiving a wireless identification signal from an active RFID attached to the animal for continuously transmitting a wireless identification signal from the animal without being energized by an external device,
- measuring a strength of the wireless identification signal for the animal and the strength of the other wireless identification signals,
- distinguishing between the wireless identification signal for the animal on the weighting scale and a plurality of other wireless identification signals from a corresponding plurality of animals by a strength of the wireless identification signal for the animal on the weighing scale,
- translating the wireless identification signal into an animal identification value,
- associating the weight of the animal with the animal identification value, and
- transmitting to a data storage unit a data packet containing the weight of the animal and the animal identification value.
8 more elements
A method for animal management, the method comprising:
- receiving a weight signal from a weighing scale;
- translating the weight signal into a weight for an animal;
- receiving a wireless identification signal from a transmitter on an animal, which transmitter is continuously transmitting the wireless identification signal from the animal without being energized by an external device,
- distinguishing between the continuously transmitting wireless identification signal for the animal on the weighting scale and a plurality of other continuously transmitting wireless identification signals from a corresponding plurality of animals by a strength of the wireless identification signal for the animal on the weighting scale;
- translating the wireless identification signal into an animal identification value;
- associating the weight of the animal with an animal identification value;
- and
- transmitting to a data storage unit a data packet containing the weight of the animal and the animal identification value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.