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US 2010/0058629 A1Published application
Lab animal ear tag
AssigneeThe Jackson Laboratory
InventorsJoan Emily Malcolm ALBEE, Shannon Byers, Michael V. Wiles
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Abstract
An animal ear tag that is sufficiently light and small that it may be secured to the ear of an animal without causing irritation to the animal or loss of attachment. The ear tag includes an identification code that may be in the form of human-readable or machine-readable indicia or an RFID tag mounted on or inside the ear tag. The ear tag may be part of a sequential set of ear tags arranged in a strip.
Claims86
An ear tag comprising:
- a plaque having a substantially flat shape and having an identification code;
- and
- two or more pins connected to the plaque for securing the ear tag to the ear of an animal;
- wherein at least two of the pins are each connected to each of two opposite sides of the plaque, respectively;
- and wherein the ear tag has a weight of about 0.06 g or less.
2 more elements
An article comprising:
- a set of ear tags, each ear tag comprising:
- a plaque having a substantially flat shape and having an identification code;
- and
- two or more pins connected to the plaque for securing the ear tag to the ear of an animal;
- and
- a connection between each pair of adjacent ear tags of the set of ear tags:
- wherein at least two of the pins are each connected to each of two opposite sides of the plaque, respectively;
- wherein each ear tag has a weight of about 0.06 g or less;
- and wherein the set of ear tags is a sequential set of ear tags.
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A method comprising the following steps:
- (a) inserting each of the two or more pins of an ear tag into the ear of an animal so that a plaque of the ear tag sits substantially flat and immobilized on one surface of an animal ear;
- and
- (b) bending each of the pins so that the pins are substantially parallel to a second surface of the animal ear to thereby secure the ear tag to the animal ear, wherein the plaque has an identification code and the two or more pins extend downwardly from the plaque in step (a).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.