US Patent Issued to Logical Brands on June 23 for "Self-righting cat toys" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,798, issued on June 23, was assigned to Logical Brands Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Self-righting cat toys" was invented by Lendy Beatty (Franklin, Tenn.) and Craig Olroyd (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-righting cat toy is shown and described. The toy can be tilted with a tilting force, but when the tilting force is released, the toy returns to an upright position without any further action on the part of the user. Thus, the toy gives the appearance of "wobbling" when it is tilted and released. An upper conical section of the toy is made from an ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) block copolymer material...