ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,626, issued on Sept. 9.
"Feeding vessels and feeding vessel shields" was invented by Whitney Marshall (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding bowl assembly has a feeding bowl; a flexible removable shield to partially surround the feeding bowl; a pad for bowl placement having a plurality of arcuate slots to receive an end of the shield having a retaining lip configured to extend through one of the arcuate slots; a band having a pressure sensitive adhesive to attach to the shield; wherein the shield, the pad and the band are configured to be flat packable when unassembled; and wherein the band is configurable to be po...