ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,276, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Quanzhou Purplebox Electronics Co. Ltd. (Quanzhou, China).

"Apparatus and method for controlling anti-barking device with noise reduction" was invented by Zhican Huang (Fujian, China), Baoyin Huang (Fujian, China) and Xiaowei Zhang (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of anti-barking devices, and provides an apparatus and method for controlling an anti-barking device with noise reduction. The apparatus includes a fixing device wearable on a neck of a pet dog, a housing, an anti-barking device, a main microphone sound collection mo...