ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,867, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hebe Studio Ltd. (Banbury, Great Britain).
"Scratching apparatus" was invented by James Tuthill (Headington, Great Britain), Simon Nicholls (Daventry, Great Britain), Johannes Paul (London) and William Windham (Banbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scratching apparatus including a support for a scratchable cover. The support includes a plurality of support members and is reconfigurable between first and second states, wherein in the first state a scratchable cover supported by said support is loosely mounted on said support and in the second state the scratchable cover is tens...