ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,871, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Feinkind Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Temperature-controlled automatic wet pet food feeder assembly" was invented by Elizabeth Dippold (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Joshua Feinkind (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature-controlled automatic wet pet food feeder assembly that includes a portable housing having a plurality of feeding compartments operable to store wet pet food, preferably in a longitudinally oriented direction. The assembly includes a refrigeration unit operable to cool one or more of the feeding compartments with the wet pet food within a range of approximately ...