Merck / Vence / SenseHubACorporate & U.S. Market ProfileBPublicly Disclosed Technology ArchitectureCPatent Element MappingDStrongest Evidence of OverlapEWhat the Kahler Patent Contains That Is …FEvidence SourcesGAssessment & Questions for Legal ReviewHCorporate Technology EcosystemIVence — Publicly Disclosed FunctionalityJSenseHub Feedlot — AI Evidence CardKScale and U.S. RelevanceLCombined Ecosystem Question
Merck Animal Health — Vence & SenseHub — Page B
Publicly Disclosed Technology Architecture
What is publicly disclosed
Reviewed public capability set
- Vence: virtual fencing
- Vence: tracking cattle
- Vence: monitoring cattle
- Vence: managing cattle movement
- Vence: rotational grazing
- Vence: computer / smartphone control
- Vence: movement between pastures
- Vence: GPS-based virtual boundary architecture
- SenseHub Feedlot: electronic livestock ear tags
- SenseHub Feedlot: temperature monitoring
- SenseHub Feedlot: activity monitoring
- SenseHub Feedlot: continuous monitoring
- SenseHub Feedlot: accelerometers
- SenseHub Feedlot: data gateway / platform
- SenseHub Feedlot: machine-learning algorithms
- SenseHub Feedlot: baseline / outlier identification
- SenseHub Feedlot: automatically generated animal lists requiring assessment
- SenseHub Feedlot: customizable alerts
- SenseHub Feedlot: mobile / computer interface
- SenseHub Feedlot: identifying potentially sick animals before obvious clinical signs
Why this matters to the patent position
Merck expressly states that collected data is used by machine-learning algorithms to identify cattle varying from baseline norms. A current app description goes further and describes advanced AI algorithms analysing outlier behaviour for individuals and groups.
Structural mapping
Kahler architecture vs. disclosed architecture
| Kahler architecture | Merck Animal Health — Vence & SenseHub — publicly disclosed |
|---|---|
| Property boundary | Vence GPS-based virtual boundary |
| Zones | Vence pastures and rotational grazing areas |
| Livestock associated with zones | Vence herd allocation and movement between pastures |
| Distributed sensors | SenseHub ear tags with accelerometers and temperature sensing |
| AI / machine intelligence | SenseHub machine-learning baseline and outlier identification |
| Unusual occurrence | Animals varying from baseline norms; lists requiring assessment |
| Alert | Customizable alerts to mobile and computer interfaces |