US Patent Issued to Half-Pint Pet Products on Oct. 20 for "Harness for safe animal retention" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,515, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Half-Pint Pet Products LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Harness for safe animal retention" was invented by Julie Vickers (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for retaining an animal within an enclosure includes a harness, a left-side cranial retainer, and a right-side cranial retainer. The harness includes one or more flexible materials and is configured to be selectively secured around a body of the animal. The left-side cranial retainer is coupled to the harness and includes a left-side longitudinal member configured such that a longitudinal axis of the left-side longitudinal member...