US Patent Issued to Mid-West Metal Products on Oct. 7 for "Animal crate with removably coupled divider panel assembly" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,243, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mid-West Metal Products Co. Inc. (Muncie, Ind.).

"Animal crate with removably coupled divider panel assembly" was invented by Brad Cantwell (Muncie, Ind.), Stew Kerr (Muncie, Ind.), Michael E. Greene (Muncie, Ind.) and David J. Nolley (Muncie, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A divider panel assembly for being assembled within an interior of an animal enclosure includes a body defined by a plurality of interconnecting horizontal and vertical wires, the body including a height and width defined by a top horizontal wire, a bottom horizontal wire, a first vertical wire and a second vertical wire....