US Patent Issued to Bernardino Jimenez Sanchez on Oct. 7 for "Anti-pest device for fruit trees and the like" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,207, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bernardino Jimenez Sanchez (Madrid).

"Anti-pest device for fruit trees and the like" was invented by Francisco Jose Gallardo Pinto (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-pest device for fruit trees and the like that prevents trees from being affected by crawling insect pests includes a rectangular sheet of electrical insulating material, which can adopt the shape of an inverted truncated cone or a cylindrical configuration around the trunk of the tree; a band of low-density foam under the sheet that adapts to the physiognomy of the bark, and deforms with the growth of the trunk, whereas t...