Customized Enzyme Composition for Animal Feed Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The use of exogenous enzymes in animal nutrition is limited by restricted technical information from suppliers, making it difficult to objectively compare and optimize enzyme functionality in animal feed formulations.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for formulating customized animal feeds that involve receiving animal owner data, developing zootechnical objectives, characterizing feed and enzyme components, generating an enzyme selection index, predicting a customized enzyme composition, and manufacturing a tailored animal feed to improve animal health and performance, using a processor-based system that includes a server, database, and software package.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If enzyme suppliers restrict technical information sharing to maintain competitive advantage, then supplier market power is preserved, but objective comparison and optimization of enzyme functionality becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments enzyme functionality into specific measurable parameters (e.g., nutrient digestibility, anti-nutritional factor control) and evaluates each separately. This allows objective comparison of enzyme performance without requiring suppliers to disclose proprietary formulation details, resolving the contradiction between information restriction and comparison capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces standardized evaluation protocols and third-party assessment frameworks as intermediaries between enzyme suppliers and users. These intermediaries enable objective comparison of enzyme functionality based on measurable outcomes rather than proprietary claims, allowing information flow without direct supplier disclosure.
2Measurement precision
If standardized enzyme evaluation parameters are implemented, then objective comparison becomes possible, but system complexity and implementation cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent develops universal evaluation protocols that can assess multiple enzyme types (phytases, carbohydrases, proteases) using the same standardized parameters. This multi-functional approach enables objective comparison across different enzyme categories without requiring separate complex evaluation systems for each enzyme type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent focuses evaluation on key measurable parameters (nutrient digestibility, anti-nutritional factor reduction) rather than attempting to measure all possible enzyme properties. This selective parameter approach maintains measurement precision while reducing system complexity by concentrating on the most impactful evaluation dimensions.
3Reliability
If customized enzyme compositions are formulated based on specific animal needs, then animal health and performance improve, but formulation and manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary characterization of feed raw materials and enzyme properties before formulation. By pre-establishing enzyme selection indices and performance scores based on standardized parameters, the system reduces formulation complexity when creating customized compositions for specific animal needs, as the foundational data is already organized and evaluated.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates dynamic formulation systems that adapt enzyme compositions based on specific animal requirements, feed material characteristics, and production objectives. This dynamic approach allows customized formulations to be generated systematically using algorithmic optimization rather than manual trial-and-error, managing complexity through computational methods.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach allows for the creation of optimized enzyme compositions that improve animal health and performance by tailoring enzyme formulations to specific animal needs, enhancing nutrient digestibility and reducing anti-nutritional factors, while providing transparent and data-driven decision-making for animal owners and feed manufacturers.
Implementation Method 1
Exogenous enzymes have historically been considered as one of the most frequent tools in the search for improvements in nutrient digestibility
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure is directed to methods of formulating a customized animal feed that includes a customized enzyme composition. Methods of achieving one or more zootechnical objectives for an animal are also provided.