ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,246, issued on July 22, was assigned to ReptileBreeders (Cape Coral, Fla.).
"Collapsible containment system" was invented by Liam Gilbert (Cape Coral, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal containment system includes a frame and a set of animal beds (e.g., plastic bins or similar) that are held in the frame for growing, mating, demonstration, sales, etc. When the animals are no longer present, the frame collapses, either horizontally or vertically, to reduce the amount of space consumed by the frame, as it is often possible to stack the animal beds, one inside each other, thereby reducing storage and transportation space requ...