ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,112, issued on March 4.
"Self-filling and self-cleaning pet bowl" was invented by Austin Madore (Brandon, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pet drinking bowl, particularly a self-filling and self-cleaning pet drinking bowl with a sealing door, a removable drinking bowl, and at least one removable cleaning or filling nozzles aligned around and above the removable drinking bowl, is disclosed. Alternate versions may have removable cleaning or filling nozzles in the sealing lid. The pet drinking bowl is filled by water pressure from a residential water circuit distributed by a series of solenoid valves and is drained via a pump plumb...