ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,143, issued on June 17.
"Systems and methods for dynamic release planning for insect release" was invented by Tiantian Zha (South San Francisco, Calif.), Peter Massaro (San Carlos, Calif.) and Erika Lee (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamic release planning for insect release. One example method includes receiving information indicating a population of wild insects within a geographic region; determining a number of wild insects per unit area within the geographic region; placing, based on the number of wild insects per unit area, one or more insect release points ...