ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,873, issued on March 31, was assigned to Brisby Inc. (Newton, Mass.).
"Animal care and monitoring platform" was invented by Jamie Gordon Nichol (Carlisle, Mass.), Neil Stepak (Vancouver, Canada) and Mark Florence (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart animal bed system includes a base supporting a padded animal bed; a movement sensor for providing movement sensor signals in response to movement of an animal within the padded animal bed; and a temperature control system having a heating mode and a cooling mode, the temperature control system configured to selectively provide heating or cooling to the padded animal bed ...