US 12,239,096 B2
Animal containment enrichment compositions and methods
Gilles Speter, San Diego, CA (US); and Leroy Jenson, La Mesa, CA (US)
Assigned to Innovive, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by INNOVIVE, INC., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/067,307.
Application 17/067,307 is a continuation of application No. 15/326,431, granted, now 10,842,124, previously published as PCT/US2015/040647, filed on Jul. 15, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/108,472, filed on Jan. 27, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/029,359, filed on Jul. 25, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022312 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01K 1/015 (2006.01); A01K 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 1/0157 (2013.01) [A01K 1/0035 (2013.01); A01K 1/0152 (2013.01); A01K 1/0155 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An animal containment enrichment composition for a rodent or rodents, comprising:
one or more sheets, at least one of the one or more sheets comprises an array of perforations defining a flat array of interconnected sections of the sheet, each interconnected section of the sheet comprises a plurality of sides defining a perimeter of a geometric shape, the perimeter of each interconnected section of the sheet comprises at least one corner link, at least one side link, at least one full length perforation, and at least one partial perforation;
wherein:
the at least one full length perforation traverses a sheet thickness and extends from a beginning of a side of a section to a terminus of the side of the section and defines an entire side of the section;
the at least one partial length perforation extends from the at least one corner link and/or the at least one side link and defines a portion of a side of the section;
the at least on corner link located at a beginning or a terminus of a side and at a corner of an adjacent section;
the at least one side link located along a portion of a side;
each at least one corner link and/or at least one side link has a maximum width of about 0.01 millimeters to about 0.15 millimeters and is configured to be torn by a rodent to detach and completely separate the sections from the array of interconnected sections in the sheet; and
the at least on corner link and the at least one side link interconnect adjacent sections of the array of interconnected sections and provides integrity to the sheet so the interconnected sections remain attached to one another as a unit until separated by a rodent.