US Patent Issued to VAN NESS PLASTIC MOLDING on June 24 for "Cat carrier configured for ease of assembly without tools" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,497, issued on June 24, was assigned to VAN NESS PLASTIC MOLDING COMPANY INC. (Clifton, N.J.).

"Cat carrier configured for ease of assembly without tools" was invented by William Van Ness (Clifton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cat carrier includes a tray, and an enclosure formed of: a lower housing portion with an upper mating flange, and an upper housing portion with a lower mating flange. Protrusions on one mating flange slidably engage openings formed with respect to the other mating flange, to releasably couple the housings together without tools. Holes in each of the mating flanges align, when the housing portions are m...