US Patent Issued to Bell Laboratories on Oct. 28 for "Rodent control device with modular rodent sensor housing" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,343, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bell Laboratories Inc. (Windsor, Wis.).

"Rodent control device with modular rodent sensor housing" was invented by James R. Walsh (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rodent control assembly has a module for housing sensor electronics which is insertable through a hole in the rear wall of a rodent control device such as a bait station or a repeating trap. The rodent control device has a bottom wall with portions defining opposed parallel frontwardly extending channels which are accessible through openings in a rear wall. The module has a shell with a front wall which extends upward...