ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,421, issued on June 10, was assigned to Beewise Technologies LTD (Kibbutz Beit-Haemek, Israel).

"Array of gates in automated bee habitat" was invented by Eliyah Radzyner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zvi Yaniv (Kfar Vradim, Israel), Yavin Cafri (Kibbutz Reshafim, Israel) and Shlomo Frankin (Kibbutz Yehiam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for controlling one or more arrays of bee passage gates in an automated bee habitat, comprising one or more gate arrays comprising a plurality of gates to one or more chambers of an automated bee habitat, each of the gates is individually moveable, independently of all other...