ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,009, issued on Sept. 22.
"Apparatus for photographing animals" was invented by Kathryn G. O'Hare (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera stick apparatus for holding an object such as an animal toy in the field of view of a camera is described. In one embodiment the camera stick is has an upper stick portion and a lower stick portion coupled to a phone clamp, the phone clamp is adapted to cradle a phone having a phone camera. An attachment arm coupled with the camera stick portion of the camera sick has a first coupling portion, the first coupling portion may be adapted to couple with a second coupling portion of an appara...