Patent ID: 9578853
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A01K

Claim:
1. A marking code for encoding information on a rodent's tail comprising: a machine-readable code portion comprising a plurality of evenly spaced bars of varying length perpendicular to the tail of the rodent; a human-readable code portion comprising a plurality of human-readable alphanumeric characters; a first data table; a second data table; a first predetermined map that translates from the machine-readable code portion to a first animal identifier; a second predetermined map that translates from the human-readable code portion to a second animal identifier, distinct from the first animal identifier; wherein the first data table contains an entry comprising a first study value at a table index position of the machine-readable animal identifier; wherein the second data table contains an entry comprising a second study value at a table index position of the human-readable animal identifier; wherein the machine-readable code portion and the human-readable code portion are visibly marked on a rodent tail.