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US 9,516,858 B2Granted
Rodent containment cage monitoring apparatus and methods
AssigneeInnovive, Inc.
InventorsDee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems for convenient management of animals within a rodent containment cage system that includes labeling components, receiving data, associating the data, reporting the data and/or associations and locating components within the cage system. The management of the system may be self-contained, networked through a controller, local server and/or main server.
Claims28
A method for detecting one or more identifiers on a rodent containment cage, comprising:
- engaging the rodent containment cage with a first cage mount assembly and a second cage mount assembly of a rack, wherein the cage contacts the first cage mount assembly and the second cage mount assembly;
- the first cage mount assembly comprises an attached detector and the second cage mount assembly comprises an attached detector;
- the cage comprises a first cage component comprising one or more detectable identifiers, whereby when the cage is engaged with and contacts the first cage mount assembly and the second cage mount assembly, the detector attached to the first cage mount assembly, or the detector attached to the second cage mount assembly detects the one or more detectable identifiers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.