Abstract: A pet treat holder comprising a body, a clamp, a gripper frame, and a treat gripper, and a method of providing a pet treat to an animal.

Abstract: Systems for monitoring audio quality of clustered devices are presented including: a number of wireless communication devices that are physically clustered; a number of audio interface modules (AIM) each electronically paired with each of the number of wireless communication devices to form an AIM/device pair, where the number of AIMs each receives and transmits wireless audio transmissions from each of the paired number of wireless communication devices; a data bus hub electronically coupled with the number of AIMs; and an electronic computing device for receiving and analyzing data associated with the wireless audio transmissions. In some embodiments, wireless audio transmissions are either a narrowband transmission or a wideband transmission. In some embodiments, the wideband transmission is a WiFi audio transmission and the narrowband transmission is a BLUETOOTH® transmission.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to control an range of successful interrogation by an RFID reader so that tags located in a specific physical area are likely to be successfully interrogated by the reader while the chance of the reader reading tags in other locations are minimized. In one embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of delineation RFID tags with known unique identifying numbers are placed in an areas of interest or wanted region, and the reader is characterized to determine an optimal setting for at least one transmission parameter based on responses from the delineation RFID tags and a predetermined figure of merit.