ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,348, issued on May 27, was assigned to FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Intelligent Forcipomyia taiwana monitoring and management system" was invented by Yee Siang Gan (Taichung, Taiwan), Shih-Kai Fan (Taichung, Taiwan), Ching-Yun Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan), Sze-Teng Liong (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yu-Ting Sheng (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent Forcipomyia taiwana monitoring and management system comprises: a catching mechanism grabbing a to-be-identified target; a database storing a datum comprising pictures of a flying insect category; a model training module using the pictures to establish a trai...