ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,691, issued on April 1, was assigned to CANADA POOCH LTD. (Toronto).

"Animal calming vest system and method" was invented by Danielle McGuire (Toronto) and Casey Barber (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calming an animal with an animal calming vest that includes disposing the animal calming vest on the back of the animal. The animal calming vest includes a jacket, a first pair of coupling arms extending from the jacket, a second pair of coupling arms extending from the jacket, a collar extending from the jacket, and a collar weight disposed within an internal collar cavity of the collar. The method further includes ...