ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,617, issued on March 11, was assigned to SHANGHAI SUNLIGHT INNOV TRADING Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Artificial bully stick of edible pet chew" was invented by Guangqiang Xu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edible pet chew includes a member of artificial dehydrated pizzle component formed from a composition material imitating existing traditional bully stick products or dehydrated animal pizzle products, serving as an alternative to it. The imitation includes the structure, and/or appearance, and/or size, and/or color, and/or texture, and/or flavor, and/or durability, and/or palatability of traditional dehydrated animal pizzle....