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United States Patent | 6,323,771 |
Payne , et al. | November 27, 2001 |
The present disclosure involves a method of identifying animals involving the use of a universal identification scheme capable of identifying individual animals anywhere in the world such that data may collected for the animals over their entire life cycle.
Inventors: | Payne; James S. (Minneapolis, MN), Semmer; John M. (Maple Plain, MN), Weiser; John P. (Minnetonka, MN) |
Appl. No.: | 09/545,386 |
Filed: | April 7, 2000 |
Current U.S. Class: | 340/573.1 ; 340/10.1; 340/10.33; 340/5.8; 340/572.1; 340/572.7 |
Current International Class: | A01K 11/00 (20060101); G06K 19/077 (20060101); G06K 19/06 (20060101); G06K 19/04 (20060101); G08B 023/00 () |
Field of Search: | 340/573.1,572.7,10.33,572.1,825.34,10.1,825.54,447 235/462.09,462.1 |
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