US Patent Issued to Unicharm on Feb. 10 for "Litter for system litter box and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,698, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Unicharm Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Litter for system litter box and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yasuhiro Akino (Kagawa, Japan) and Hiroki Yamamoto (Kagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Litter for a system litter box includes granular matters each having a granule diameter equal to or smaller than 6.0 mm. A proportion of the granular matters, having any smaller one of a granule diameter and a granule length of less than 3.2 mm, is equal to or less than 6%."

The patent was filed on April 30, 2024, under Application No. 18/650,498.

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