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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Applicant:
AM Microsystems Srl, Urbisaglia, IT;
Inventors:
Fabio Casarola, Filottrano, IT;
Roberto Ciccocioppo, Camerino, IT;
Adolfo Russo, Macerata, IT;
Matteo Piersantelli, Macerata, IT;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01K 1/03 (2006.01); A01K 7/02 (2006.01); A01K 1/035 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01K 1/031 (2013.01); A01K 1/0356 (2013.01); A01K 7/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stalling cage having a box suitable for containing an animal, a receptacle that contains a liquid to be administered to the animal in the box, and a monitoring device suitable for continuously monitoring the consumption of liquid from the receptacle. The monitoring device has a level condenser with two electrodes in co-planar configuration in contact with the receptacle in order to measure the capacitance variation caused by the variation of the level of liquid relative to the air in the receptacle.