ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,537, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MODPRODUCTS LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Litter box with removable liner" was invented by Brett Teper (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Richard Williams (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A litter box includes a container having a wall and pegs that project upward from a top of the wall or horizontally from an inner surface of the wall, the plurality of pegs being distributed along a circumference of the container. A liner is insertable into the container with tabs connected along an upper edge of the liner. Each tab includes a connection part and a stiffener part. The connection part extends upward...