Tracking device for pets

• US 5,850,196 A
• Filed: 09/18/1997
• Issued: 12/15/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marty G.T. Mowers
• Original Assignee: Marty G.T. Mowers
• Inventors: Mowers, Marty G. T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Theodore M.
• Application Number:
  US08/933,171
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• Field of Search: 342/357, 128/899, 424/423, 427/2.14, D24/155, 119/720, 119/721, 119/908
• US Class Current: 342/357.55
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 11/008 incorporating GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 1/68 Marker, boundary, call-sign, or like beacons transmitting signals not carrying directional information
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/04 Position of source determined by a plurality of spaced direction-finders

Abstract

A new tracking device for pets for locating objects. The inventive device includes a microchip transmitter encapsulated within a biologically inert material and coupled with respect to a pet and communicating with a satellite system.

Claims

1. A tracking device for implantation within a pet for tracking and locating the pet if the pet is lost comprising, in combination:

a microchip transmitter encapsulated within a biologically inert material, the transmitter having a pair of tabs extending outwardly from opposing edges thereof, the tabs each having a series of perforations for receiving threads therethrough, the transmitter being implanted into a soft tissue of the pet, said microchip being for communicating with a satellite system such that the pet can be located by communicating with the satellite system.

2. A tracking device for a pet for tracking and locating the pet when the pet is lost comprising, in combination:

a microchip transmitter encapsulated within a biologically inert material, the transmitter being implanted within the pet, the transmitter further being for communication with a satellite system such that the pet can be located by communication with the satellite system, the biologically inert material being formed into a substantially planar housing and the housing being substantially rectangular shaped with rounded corners; and

a pair of substantially planar tabs oppositionally disposed from said housing, said pair of tabs being formed from biologically inert material, each of said pair of tabs having rounded corners, each of said pair of tabs including a plurality of perforations, each of said perforations being for receiving a thread such that each of said pair of tabs is couplable to soft tissue of the pet by suturing each of said pair of tabs to the soft tissue of the pet.

3. The tracking device for a pet as in claim 2, wherein the perforations are positioned along an outermost edge of each respective tab.