ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,161, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Shanghai Sunlight Innov Trading Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Artificial dehydrated pizzle of edible pet chew" was invented by Guangqiang Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edible pet chew includes a member of curved Artificial Bully Stick (artificial dried pizzle) formed from a composition material with at least 20% plant ingredient imitating existing traditional bully stick products, serving as an alternative to traditional bully stick product (such as bully ring, bully spiral, bully braid, etc.). The imitation includes the structure, and/or appearance, and/or size, and/or color, and/or tex...