US Patent Issued on Sept. 23 for "Method, system and computer programs for the automatic counting of the number of insects in a trap" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,829, issued on Sept. 23.

"Method, system and computer programs for the automatic counting of the number of insects in a trap" was invented by Meritxell Vilaseca Ricart (Terrassa, Spain), Fernando Diaz Douton (Terrassa, Spain), Francisco Javier Burgos Fernandez (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain), Carlos Enrique Garcia Guerra (Terrassa, Spain), Albert Virgili Olive (Barcelona, Spain) and Abel Antonio Zaragoza Balleste (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are proposed for the automatic counting of the number of insects in a trap. The method comprises acquiring, using an acquisition system, a plurality of spe...