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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2014
Vium, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Jonathan Noble Betts-Lacroix, Belmont, CA (US);
Timothy Levi Robertson, Belmont, CA (US);
Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
An electronic monitor can monitor experimental animals in a cage. The cage has one or more walls that enclose a living space for the experimental animals. The electronic monitor is coupled to the cage. The electronic monitor may include a housing adapted to be mechanically coupled to the cage in a predefined position relative to the cage. A substantially sterile barrier is provided between the living space and the external environment in this coupled state. The walls of the cage may include a signal-interface section. An electromagnetic detector may be coupled to the housing to have a line-of-sight through the signal-interface section and into the living space of the cage. The electromagnetic detector is adapted to detect electromagnetic radiation that is transmitted through the signal-interface section. A controller processes a signal received from the electromagnetic detector to determine a status of the experimental animals or the living space.