ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,304, issued on July 21.
"Modular bear or other wild animal deterrent system for a house or building" was invented by Russell Sutliff (Granite Bay, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modular bear or other wild animal deterrent system for a house or building is a deterrent system that uses electrical shock delivery as the deterrent mechanism wherein one or more special strips are mounted to one or more doors or windows of a house or building wherein each special strip dispatches a non-deadly electrical shock to an animal when the animal touches or contacts the special strip. Each special strip has one or more exposed electrically ch...