ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,512, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for providing and associating data from pet expert interactions with pet profiles" was invented by Kelvin Kwong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by at least one processor of a platform includes receiving from a first system a first data set associated with an interaction between a pet owner and an expert relating to care of a pet hosted via the first system, updating pet profile data associated with the pet based on the first data set, determining a portion of the pet profile data including the first dataset associate...