Animal husbandry – Animal controlling or handling
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-24
2008-12-23
Abbott, Yvonne R. (Department: 3644)
Animal husbandry
Animal controlling or handling
C119S421000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07467603
ABSTRACT:
An approach to monitoring, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment or conditioning of animals such as horses does not require use of restrictive equipment such as treadmills or force plates and that can provide either or both of more or less immediate or continuous processing of data to perform the monitoring or diagnosis. One or more wireless sensors are attached to the animal, for example, to measure motion-related parameter associated with one or more parts of the animal. Sensor data is received from the sensors and processed to identify a characteristic of the motion of the animal, such as a quality of gait. The sensor data can also be used to avoid injury to the animal and/or the rider, and to verify the identity of an animal.
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