ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,360, issued on May 13.
"Perching and roosting deterrent" was invented by Gordon Sabine (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and apparatus for deterring birds from perching or roosting on manmade structures includes one or more resilient members supporting interconnecting or cantilevered elongated members. The resilient members and elongated members are arrayed over the structure to be protected and are tuned such that an attempt by a bird to perch on any one of the elongated members causes vigorous motion of the elongated members and resilient members, frightening the bird away."
The patent was filed on Feb....