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US 12,751,419 B2Granted
Method and system for connecting an animal cage monitoring system to an animal cage rack
AssigneeAllentown, LLC
InventorsJohn Coiro, Steven J. Miller, Jennifer Stark
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Abstract
A method and system for removably connecting the animal cage monitoring system to an animal rack. The monitoring system can include a data collection platform. Data from an RFID chipped animal within a cage can be wirelessly transmitted to the data collection platform. An individual chipped animal is associated with the data collection platform. The data collection platform and associated cage being removably received in a data collection rack. One or more removably mountable data collection processors can be attached to the data collection rack.
Claims18
A monitoring system for automatically monitoring conditions of animals in an animal cage comprising:
- a data collection rack supporting at least one animal cage, the data collection rack includes a suspended runner system;
- the at least one animal cage comprising a cage top, the cage top including one or more walls extending from a ceiling, the ceiling is substantially flat and a cage base, the cage base including one or more walls extending from a floor;
- the cage base includes a top edge which extends from the cage base, the top edge being received on a first pair of runners of the suspended runner system, a first runner of the first pair of runners positioned adjacent a first side of the cage base and a second runner of the first pair of runners positioned adjacent a second side of the cage base;
- a removable data collection platform associated with the at least one animal cage, the removable data collection platform being independent from the at least one animal cage, the removable data collection platform includes a mount on a first side and a second side of the data collection platform, the mount includes edge runners, the edge runners being removably received on a second pair of runners of the suspended runner system, a first runner of the second pair of runners positioned adjacent a first side of the removable data collection platform and a second runner of the second pair of runners positioned adjacent a second side of the removable data platform to removably attach said removable data collection platform to said data collection rack, said removable data collection platform receiving data associated with the at least one animal cage and/or data associated with an animal inhabiting the at least one animal cage;
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- at least one data collection processor, said at least one data collection processor receiving the data from the removable data collection platform wherein the removable data collection platform and the at least one animal cage are independently removable from the data collection rack.
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A method for automatically monitoring conditions of animals in an animal cage comprising:
- providing a data collection rack supporting at least one animal cage, the at least one animal cage comprising a cage top, the cage top including one or more walls extending from a ceiling, the ceiling is substantially flat and a cage base, the cage base including one or more walls extending from a floor, the cage base includes a top edge which extends from the cage base, the data collection rack includes a suspended runner system and
- a removable data collection platform associated with the at least one animal cage, the removable data collection platform, the removable data collection platform includes a mount, the mount includes edge runners on either side of the mount, the removable data collection platform being independent from the at least one animal cage;
- removably receiving the top edge of the at least one animal cage on a first pair of runners of the suspended runner system, a first runner of the first pair of runners positioned adjacent a first side of the at least one animal cage base and a second runner of the first pair of runners positioned adjacent a second side of the at least one animal cage;
- removably receiving the edge runners on a second pair of runners of the suspended runner system, a first runner of the second pair of runners positioned adjacent a first side of the removable data collection platform and a second runner of the second pair of runners positioned adjacent a second side of the removable data platform to removably attach said data collection platform to said data collection rack, the cage base of the at least one animal cage being received on the mount of the data collection platform the removable data collection platform and the at least one animal cage being independently removable from the data collection rack;
- transmitting data from the at least one animal cage;
- receiving the data at said removable data collection platform, the data being associated with the at least one animal cage and/or the data being associated with an animal inhabiting the at least one animal cage;
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- forwarding the data to at least one data collection processor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.