ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,976, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Selective detection of bed bugs" was invented by Mark W. Beach (Midland, Mich.), Andrey N. Soukhojak (Midland, Mich.), Neil A. Spomer (Carmel, Ind.), Shane L. Mangold (Midland, Mich.), Ravi B. Shankar (Midland, Mich.), Sukrit Mukhopadhyay (Midland, Mich.), Jeremy Chris P. Reyes (Lake Jackson, Texas), Bruce A. Jacobs (Fishers, Ind.), William L. Winniford (Lake Jackson, Texas), Ronda L. Hamm (Carmel, Ind.), Phillip J. Howard (Greenville, S.C.), Andrew J. Pasztor Jr. (Midland, Mich.), Mary D. Evenson (Zionsville, Ind.), Thomas G. Patterson (Westfield, Ind.) and Natalie C. Giampietro (Carmel, Ind.).

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