US Patent Issued to GloFish on Jan. 20 for "Containment system for the display of animals" (Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,419, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GloFish LLC (Earth City, Mo.).

"Containment system for the display of animals" was invented by Thomas Lutz (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Phillip C. Bartoszek (New Berlin, Wis.) and Ernie Katris (Long Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular shelving system includes a plurality of shelves, each shelf having a length and defining a first passage, a second passage, a first channel, and a second channel that each extend the full length of their respective shelf The system also includes a plurality of bars, each bar defining a length and including a first bar opening at a first end and a second ...