US Patent Issued to PAWS FORWARD on May 27 for "Automatic animal feeding system for food pod authentication" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,338, issued on May 27, was assigned to PAWS FORWARD INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Automatic animal feeding system for food pod authentication" was invented by Peter Franklin (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey Pon (Southlake, Texas), Matthew Firlik (Buena Park, Calif.), Eric Liu (Houston), George Turvey (Brookdale, Calif.) and Charles Putland (Ben Lomond, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the f...