US Patent Issued to Wenger Manufacturing on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for production of high meat content pet foods" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,760, issued on March 25, was assigned to Wenger Manufacturing LLC (Sabetha, Kan.).

"Method and apparatus for production of high meat content pet foods" was invented by LaVon Wenger (Sabetha, Kan.), Allan C. Spellmeier (Fairview, Kan.) and Philip B. Wiltz (Sabetha, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High meat content extruded pet feeds and methods of preparation thereof, make use of relatively high meat contents which include quantities of previously dewatered meat. In an embodiment, the total meat content of the feeds consists essentially of dewatered emulsified poultry meat or other meat sources commonly used in the pet food indus...