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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2020
Sureflap Ltd, Cambridge, GB;
Nicholas Patrick Roland Hill, Cambridge, GB;
SureFlap Ltd, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
An animal feeding monitor and a method of training an animal to use a feeder. An animal feeder may have a housing including an aperture for a food bowl and having a door for covering the aperture, the feeder including a door mechanism to control movement of the door over the aperture, wherein the feeder includes a sensor to detect when an animal has moved away from the aperture, and the feeder is configured to be operable in a training mode wherein the door mechanism is operable to control the door to cover a portion of the aperture in response to detecting that an animal has moved away and subsequently responding to one or more later detections by controlling the door to cover a portion of the aperture larger than the preceding portion.