US Patent Issued to BARKBOX on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus and method for animal dental cleaning" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,107, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BARKBOX INC. (New York).

"Apparatus and method for animal dental cleaning" was invented by Henrik Werdelin (New York), Vivien Heo (New York), Melissa Seligmann (New York) and Mikkel Jensen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edible chew for oral delivery of a substance includes a body portion having a plurality of protrusions and an open channel extending longitudinally along the body portion, the channel configured to receive the substance for oral delivery. The channel includes a channel opening, having two opposed shoulder portions, and a cavity, the channel opening, shoulder porti...