ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,798, issued on May 19, was assigned to Doskocil Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Arlington, Texas).
"Pet toy and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Josiah Wilhelm (Arlington, Texas), Ron Bagley (Arlington, Texas) and Vung Van Nguyen (Long an Province, Viet Nam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a pet toy includes preforming one or more rubber compound sheets, preforming a foam rubber core in a desired shape, enclosing the foam rubber core within the one or more rubber compound sheets so that the foam rubber core forms an inner part and the one or more rubber compound sheets form an outer part, and coating the o...