ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,544, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PAWS FORWARD INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Automatic animal feeding system for self disposing of used food pods" 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 ...