U.S. Patent Position Analysis

Section 08 — Chronology

Chronology and Priority Analysis

The chronology allows the temporal relationship between the patent position and the development and public disclosure of relevant market technologies to be assessed. Entries are recorded only where supported by reliable public evidence; where a precise date is not established on the public record, the entry is recorded by stage rather than by an inferred date.

Patent record

01 Priority

Established by the official USPTO file record

Earliest priority claimed for the subject matter of the application.

02 Filing

Established by the official USPTO file record

U.S. Application No. 19/121,783.

03 Publication

Established by the official USPTO file record

Published as US 2026/0134767 A1.

04 Prosecution

Current

Allowed — issue fee paid; patent not yet issued

05 Issuance

Pending

The patent has not yet issued. The issued number and date are recorded here on issuance.

Platform chronology records

Each record captures the earliest identified public disclosure, subsequent platform development, and publicly evidenced U.S. market activity for the platform concerned. No legal conclusion follows automatically from any date; dates may become relevant to priority, prior art, notice and product evolution once verified against primary records.

Chronology record

mOOvement

  1. Earliest identified disclosure

    GPS ear tag product marketed for cattle location and boundary alerting.

  2. Platform expansion

    Property LoRa network described as carrying GPS tags and other sensor types.

  3. Configuration material

    Property configuration extended to fence lines, water bodies, rain gauges and silo monitors.

  4. U.S. market

    U.S. presence identified in Fort Worth, Texas.

  5. Current

    Public material presents property-scale monitoring with actionable insights.

Supporting evidence for mOOvement →

Chronology record

AgriWebb

  1. Earliest identified disclosure

    Livestock record-keeping and paddock management software.

  2. Mapping expansion

    Interactive GPS-enabled ranch mapping with infrastructure and hazards.

  3. U.S. launch

    U.S. product operation with Denver, Colorado office.

  4. Integration phase

    RanchSense remote water information brought into the ranch map.

  5. Integration phase

    Farmo integration adds tank, trough and rain-gauge sensors with threshold alerts.

  6. Current

    Weather, IoT water and remote sensing presented as platform integrations.

Supporting evidence for AgriWebb →

Chronology record

701x

  1. Formation

    701x established in Fargo, North Dakota.

  2. Product launch

    GPS cattle ear tags marketed with geofencing and out-of-fence alerts.

  3. Software

    Autonomous Rancher application released as the integrated interface.

  4. Infrastructure sensing

    xWatSen remote water tank monitor and cattle check-in station introduced.

  5. Patent marking

    Public patent-marking page identifies U.S. patents associated with Autonomous Rancher, xWatSen, xTlite and xTpro.

  6. Current

    Property points-of-interest model documented across beginner guidance material.

Supporting evidence for 701x →

Chronology record

Halter

  1. Earliest identified disclosure

    Virtual fencing collars for dairy and beef cattle.

  2. Product expansion

    Virtual mapping, exclusion zones and pasture rotation in-app.

  3. U.S. launch

    Dedicated U.S. offering with U.S. beef and ranch product pages.

  4. Feature additions

    Satellite-enabled connectivity and no-movement alerting.

  5. Current

    24/7 location, alerts and remote shifting presented as core capability.

Supporting evidence for Halter →

Chronology record

Gallagher

  1. Earliest identified disclosure

    eShepherd virtual fencing neckband system.

  2. U.S. launch

    eShepherd offered to U.S. ranchers through Gallagher's U.S. animal management channel.

  3. U.S. deployment

    Customer stories documented in South Dakota, Illinois and Texas.

  4. Feature additions

    Panic detection described, altering virtual-fence operation on bolting behaviour.

  5. Current

    U.S. site also offers fence monitoring and liquid / tank monitoring products.

Supporting evidence for Gallagher →

Date discipline

Stage-based entries indicate that the reviewed public materials establish the sequence of platform development without establishing a verifiable date. Precise dates for priority, filing, publication, product release and U.S. deployment are confirmed against USPTO records, official company documentation and regulatory filings before being asserted.