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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Elliott D. Light, Rockville, MD (US);
Brian Boesch, Marlton, NJ (US);
Jon L. Roberts, Great Falls, VA (US);
Elliott D. Light, Rockville, MD (US);
Brian Boesch, Marlton, NJ (US);
Jon L. Roberts, Great Falls, VA (US);
Dot Holdings, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An animal training device for administering audio stimulus and physical encouragement to an animal. The trainer has a transmitter with variable signal strength. The animal worn device had a receiver that senses the signal strength. If the signal strength drops to a preset limit indicative of distance from the transmitter, a tone is sounded. Further signal drop results in a shock being delivered. Alternatively, a trainer module comprises an RFID poller and an animal module comprises an RFID tag. The poller sends a polling signal to the RFID tag. The polling signal is reflected back to the trainer module where the reflective signal is used to determine a separation distance. If the separation distance exceeds a preset threshold, an encouragement command is sent from the trainer module to the animal module.