ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,464, issued on May 13, was assigned to FarmSense Inc. (Riverside, Calif.).
"Pest detection systems and methods" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Riverside, Calif.) and Christopher Verdegan (Riverside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive subject matter is directed to pest detection systems that implement infrared emitters with detectors that look for variations in incident light indicative of wingbeats from various pests. Emitters and detectors are placed on one or more printed circuit boards such that infrared light projected from an emitter can be received by one or more detectors. Based on signal generated by a det...