ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,917, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).
"Pest detection using sensor with textured surface" was invented by Larry Arvid Lake (Woodbury, Minn.), Morgan Ann Manderfield (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Joelle Francine Olson (Hanover, Minn.), Liliana Reategui (Saint Anthony, Minn.) and Daniel Ronald Schwartz (Cottage Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pest detection device including a capacitive sensor having a plurality of traces that can be capacitively sensed using self-capacitance or mutual capacitance measurements. The sensor including conductive shield traces to facilitate a number of sen...