Who is Animal Majesty?
We are a bunch of nerds with PhDs in Materials Science (three from MIT) who got together in 1997 to start a pet product company.
Based on the premise that the pet industry provides great opportunities for innovations in design and technology, our charter was—and remains—to leverage world-class expertise in Materials Science to leapfrog the competition while leveraging the power of our patents to guarantee superior profit margins for ourselves and for our customers.
On this basis, we decided to make a considerable investment in developing new technologies, employing full-time PhD-level engineers as well as engineering consultants (such as Food and Flavor Scientists), and to make parallel investments in obtaining effective patent coverage for the inventions resulting from the technology developments.
The initial focus of AML’s development activities was on pet products provided with antimicrobial protection. This focus was based on the recognition that microbial contamination of pet products constituted a matter of considerable potential concern for the pets, for the humans around the pets, and even for the products themselves.
In addition to patents assigned to AML or one of its subsidiary companies (on products ranging from antimicrobial-protected biodegradable materials to antimicrobial-protected amusement articles for pets), the company has also sought out complementary patents assigned to others and obtained exclusive licenses (with rights to sub-license) under those patents. Examples of such licensed patents include those of carbohydrate-synthetic polymer materials with bonding between the carbohydrate or protein components and the polymers.
More recent development activity has been directed to novel composite materials for consumer products, including composite materials based on biodegradable polymers, composites provided with antimicrobial protection, foamed materials provided with antimicrobial protection. On the pet side of things, we’ve been focusing on mastication articles for pets which promote oral hygiene and specifically address the issue of bacteria in biofilms which are responsible for plaque, as well as mastication articles for pets which reduce or eliminate halitosis.
In 2006, we began licensing some of our patents to some very high profile partners. We figured that while they were busy taking over new markets, we could spend more time dressing up in lab coats and playing with chemicals.
Who is Animal Majesty?