ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,012, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Towerstar Pets LLC (Malvern, Pa.).
"Method and apparatus for pet hair removal" was invented by Fernando Becattini Jr. (Malvern, Pa.), Jacquelyn N. Becattini (Malvern, Pa.), Fernando Becattini Sr. (Devon, Pa.), Steve A. Copeland (Barrie, Canada) and Nicholas Teixeira (Angus, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pet hair removal apparatus has a plurality of engagement members. One of the engagement members is triangular in cross section that is attached to a generally parallelogram body of the apparatus. The apparatus operates in a plurality of different operational engagement position in whic...