US Patent Issued to Spectrum Brands on Jan. 13 for "Home aquarium and methods" (Virginia, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,828, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Spectrum Brands Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Home aquarium and methods" was invented by William D. Himes (Radford, Va.), William Nathan Brunner (St. Peters, Mo.) and Catherine A. Langford (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aquarium requiring no more than only a single power connection. The aquarium includes: (a) a transparent tank having a surrounding wall with an enclosure rim surrounding an open top and an opposite closed bottom wall; (b) an electrically powered lighting arrangement; (c) an electrically powered pump oriented within an interior of the tank; (d) a base supporting th...