US Patent Issued to CleverPet on March 24 for "Systems, methods and devices for communication" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,095, issued on March 24, was assigned to CleverPet Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems, methods and devices for communication" was invented by Leo Trottier (San Diego), Jelmer Tiete (Alameda, Calif.) and Gary Stephen Shuster (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for training both non-humans and humans to communicate more effectively than previously possible. In one aspect a system for communicating with an animal comprises a plurality of tiles operably connected to one another, each tile comprising one or more buttons, an infrared transmitter and receiver assembly, a microprocessor, a speaker control...