ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,192, issued on April 8, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Motorized animal walker" was invented by Necar Ammar Saleh Merah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Trad Yahya Almushrif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ryan Atiq Alzahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muath Sulaiman Alwafi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Yazeed Abdullah Alshehri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A walker for an animal that includes five expandable shaft members, each of the five expandable shaft members include an inner solid shaft and an outer hollow slider. The five expandable shaft members includes two hori...