ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,925, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wicked Feeder Solutions LLC (Rock Hill, S.C.).
"Animal feeder" was invented by Bobby Allen Freeman (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Robert Scott McCormick (Nales, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal feeder includes: a tray assembly defining at least one sloped feed dish; a reservoir communicating with the tray assembly, the reservoir having a fill opening; dispensing openings formed in a wall of the reservoir configured to permit granular animal feed to flow by gravity from the reservoir into the at least one sloped feed dish; and wherein each of the dispensing openings is partially blocked by a...