ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,563, issued on July 28, was assigned to Shenzhen Qianhai Runway Technology Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Manual pet feeder" was invented by Jing Wang (Shenzhen, China), Junsheng Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Zhimin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a manual pet feeder. The manual pet feeder includes a barrel body having an opening at a top portion thereof and a feed dispensing mechanism being disposed at a bottom portion of the barrel body corresponding to the feed outlet; an upper cover, mounted on the opening at the top portion of the barrel body, where a top portion of the upper cover i...