Patents Examined by Trinh T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12256708
    Abstract: A foldable pet house includes a frame composed of a first side panel, a second side panel, a third side panel, and a fourth side panel connected end to end, a top cover connected at a top of the frame, and a bottom panel connected at a bottom of the frame. The first side panel and the third side panel are foldable and opposite to each other, and the second side panel and the fourth side panel are not foldable and opposite to each other. A positioning assembly is provided between the top cover and the top of the frame to limit a relative movement between the frame and the top cover. An opening is provided on the side panel for cleaning. A rotating connector is used for the connection of foldable side panels or other parts and components of the pet house.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: XIAMEN SUNNYPET PRODUCTS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kongzhi Lu
  • Patent number: 12245617
    Abstract: 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. Final products of it may be in a form such as spiral form, stick form, knotted bone form, twisted form and braid form. It may be processed by an extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI SUNLIGHT INNOV TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guangqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 12239113
    Abstract: Livestock may be managed by a variety of systems, processes, and techniques. In particular implementations, the properties of water may be monitored by automated techniques and treated water may be provided to animals. In certain implementations, sick, or potentially sick, livestock may be provided with treated water to improve their health. The automated techniques may include monitoring the movements and/or water consumption of the livestock and predicting which ones may be sick based on their movements and/or water consumption. In some implementations, a water trough may contain multiple segments. The water properties in the segments may be maintained at different states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HerdX, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald B. Hicks, Sarah C. Harkleroad, Jay D. J. Pennington, Alan W. Neidig, Robert T. Buczkiewicz
  • Patent number: 12232460
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a system for stimulating and communicating with floral objects. The system includes a base unit for communicating with the floral objects to read and stimulating physical and biological properties, and an electronic circuitry configured to be placed in reach of the floral objects. The electronic circuitry is capacitively coupled to the base unit and the floral objects. The base unit is able to create and communicate stimulated patterns to stimulate growth, biological properties of the floral object. The base unit generates stimulated pattern on receiving information and data from the electronic circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Wolfgang Richter, Faranak Zadeh
  • Patent number: 12232459
    Abstract: The present invention is a vertical farming system including a set of transportable farming modules, each module having a plurality of vertically arranged farming tiers. Each tier includes a distinct aqueous input, a distinct aqueous drain output, and a distinct aqueous overflow output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Cloud Produce Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Hertel, Ian Mathieson
  • Patent number: 12213452
    Abstract: A quick disposal sanitary system that enables the collection of deposited waste materials is disclosed. The system includes an absorbent pad; a liquid impervious layer extending outwardly from the absorbent pad, creating a peripheral boundary; and a drawstring system having a cord and a pull-tab; wherein the cord is disposed in the peripheral boundary. The drawstring system is configured to fold the peripheral boundary inwardly, thereby causing the absorbent pad and the liquid impervious layer to constrict and gather into a closed configuration constrict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventor: Alonso Amparan
  • Patent number: 12207601
    Abstract: A fogponics apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a fog channel and an air channel. The fog channel has a first fog channel end that is open, and a second fog channel end that is closed. The air channel is within the fog channel and has a first air channel end extending past the first fog channel end, and a second air channel end within the fog channel. The second air channel end is distanced away from the closed second fog channel end such that when vaporized liquid is sent from the first air channel end to the second air channel end, the vaporized liquid egresses the second air channel end and travels through the fog channel to the first fog channel end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventors: Albert Aguilar Sandra, Kiwa Lang, Luke Kelly, Andres Torres
  • Patent number: 12201090
    Abstract: An electrical stimulation system includes an electrical stimulation circuit and a controller. The electrical stimulation circuit includes a flyback transformer connected to electrical stimulus outputs, and a switch having a control input. In some instances, a controller is connected to the control input, and generates a stimulus signal. The flyback transformer outputs an electrical stimulus event responsive to the stimulus signal onto the electrical stimulus outputs. In some instances, pulses operate to charge the flyback transformer to a saturation mode. In some further instances, a diode and capacitor arrangement electrically connected at a secondary side of the flyback transformer facilitate delivery of the electrical stimulus event at the electrical stimulus outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: RADIO SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Wacasey, Thomas B. Lee, Eric Clark
  • Patent number: 12193380
    Abstract: A hormone-free culture method for a citrus shoot tip is provided according to the following steps: (1) selecting a citrus branch to make an explant; (2) washing with sterile water after disinfection; (3) inserting the explant into a Murashige and Skoog (MS) solid medium and culturing to produce a branch with new buds; (4) preparing a Murashge and Tucker (MT) liquid medium solution, where a mass concentration of sucrose is 7-8%; (5) removing an outer leave of the new bud, cutting and taking a shoot tip, and inoculating in a liquid medium for primary culture; (6) selecting a seed of a trifoliate orange or a citrange and peeling off a testa; washing with the sterile water after disinfection; (7) inoculating a resulting seed into a test tube containing the MS solid medium and culturing in dark to obtain an etiolated seedling; (8) cutting a T-shaped incision and placing the shoot tip in a middle of the T-shaped incision to obtain a grafted seedling; and (9) grafting culture, and then conducting a secondary graftin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Nanchong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Xiaoqiu Du, Ying He, Defu Li, Yue Liu, Guichuan Yang
  • Patent number: 12185694
    Abstract: The disclosure provide a device for protecting the hearing of animals. The device is a sound protection cap constructed of formable material, e.g., a soft acoustical material, and adjustable straps to comfortably fit over the ears and on the head of an animal, such as a dog. The sound protection cap can come in different sizes to insure a good fit regardless the ear type or head shape of the animal. The multiple adjustments and formable material allows the sound protection cap to conform around the ears/head of the animal and stay in place. The sound protection cap can be positioned on an animal to provide hearing protection throughout exposure to loud sounds. In one example, the sound protection cap includes: (1) an adjustable attachment system (AAS) and (2) an external ear cover (EEC) coupled to the AAS, wherein the EEC includes a sound reduction layer of a moldable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Pamela Cox
  • Patent number: 12178189
    Abstract: An animal health product container is described. The animal health product container is provided with a body, a bonding material and a pull tab. The body has a first face and a second face. The body is constructed of a weather resistant material impregnated with an animal health product compound. The bonding material attached to the first face of the body. The bonding material is configured to be weather resistant and allow the body to be removably attached to a tag body of an identification tag for an animal. The pull-tab is attached to the body, the pull tab devoid of the bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CattleGuard Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Jill Davis
  • Patent number: 12178186
    Abstract: An excrement treatment material is constituted by a water-repellent grain. The grain exhibits a first color before being used, and exhibits a second color that is different from the first color when it is time to replace the grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Yoshinaga, Shinobu Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 12178190
    Abstract: An animal training system used to train an animal includes a movement controlling device and a wearable device. The movement controlling device includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is coupled to a first connecting member. The second segment is coupled to a second connecting member. The wearable device includes a first attachment point and a second attachment point. The first attachment point is located at a midline position of the wearable device. The first segment is configured to detachably couple to the first attachment point via the first connecting member. The second segment is configured to detachably couple to the second attachment point via the second connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hundhaus Designs LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Longueira DeLuccia, Shawn Robert Stewart
  • Patent number: 12161088
    Abstract: An edible pet chew includes a member of Bully Stick Analogue formed from a composition material may be with at least 20% plant ingredient imitating existing traditional bully stick products, serving as an alternative to it. The imitation may include the structure, and/or appearance, and/or shape, and/or size, and/or color, and/or texture, and/or flavor, and/or durability, and/or palatability of traditional bully stick. It is an extruded stick processed by an extruder or a stick formed by injection molding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI SUNLIGHT INNOV TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guangqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 12144324
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of incubators, and discloses an egg incubator base including: a driving mechanism, a water supply device, a base for holding eggs, and a rotary seat for driving the eggs to rotate. Cooperation between a first sub-cavity, a second cavity and the water supply device in an embodiment of the present application can provide the egg incubator with two different humidity environments to operate without opening the egg incubator, to achieve the requirements of different environmental humidity for different time periods of the egg incubator. Secondly, the present application also provides a driving mechanism in the second sub-cavity, so that the installation space in an accommodating cavity can be further optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Wuxi Ai Ruide Plastic Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 12144290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air dome smart farm. The present invention comprises an air dome roof including an outer film and inner film in a dome shape, an air column disposed inside the air dome roof and supporting an air cultivation bed, and the air cultivation bed disposed under the air column and including multiple perforation portions to enable plant cultivation, wherein the air dome roof, the air column, and the air cultivation bed are connected to each other to allow air to pass therebetween, and thus when air is injected therein, an air dome is integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: MIDBAR, INC.
    Inventor: Hae Young Park
  • Patent number: 12137672
    Abstract: A portable livestock corral is configured to be operably attached to a vehicle for advancement in a forward direction. The portable livestock corral includes a wheeled chassis and opposed sets of corral panels. The wheeled chassis includes an elongated corral frame and a ground-engaging transport wheel operable to support the corral frame above ground. The corral frame includes a spine extending longitudinally along the forward direction and at least partly defining opposed storage areas to receive corresponding corral panels, with the transport wheel being longitudinally spaced from the storage areas. The corral panels are positioned to extend longitudinally along respective sides of the spine in a stored condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rawhide Portable Corral, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. McDonald
  • Patent number: 12127532
    Abstract: Generally, an animal monitoring system including a bolus administered to reside in an animal operable to sense changes in one or more physiological parameters of the animal and generate and transmit encoded bolus sensor data to a tag affixed on the outside of the animal which operates to sense changes in one or more environmental parameters surrounding the animal and to generate encoded tag sensor data and to receive encoded bolus sensor data each of which can be analyzed by the tag or a remote data processor to generate environmental parameter values and physiological parameter values to assess an environmental or physiological condition of or about the animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: ST Reproductive Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Rettedal, Stephen M. Weilnau, Scott R. Cockroft, Joseph Janus, IV
  • Patent number: 12127513
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device, system and a method associated with the rainwater collection, and specifically with a device that can be assembled in-situ and when inter-connected allows for the collection, storage and distribution of water along conjoined vegetable growing trays that are interconnected mechanically and hydraulically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Randolph John Putala
  • Patent number: 12121006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal collar that is personalizable with charms. The animal collar includes a buckle, a mesh material, and an elastomer strap that is formed around and encapsulates the mesh material. The elastomer strap attaches to the buckle. The elastomer strap has a plurality of buckle holes and a plurality of charm retaining holes. Charms can be secured into one or more of the charm retaining holes. Plugs can be fitted into the charm retaining holes, in a removable manner. A gripping texture can be integrally formed on the surface of the elastomer strap. The charm can include an emblem, a first charm fastener side, a second charm fastener side, and a charm collar that is sized to fit through the charm retaining hole. The first and second charm fastener sides fasten together securing the charm to the elastomer band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: We Create Products LLC
    Inventors: Richard P. Crane, Jr., Richard P. Crane, Sr.