ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,304, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FREEZEM CRYOGENICS LTD. (Herzelia, Israel).

"Ready-to-use fly neonate larvae with extended shelf-life and methods of producing same" was invented by Idan Alyagor (Rehovot, Israel), Yoav Politi (Kibbutz Nachshonim, Israel), Yuval Gilad (Herzelia, Israel), Mirit Biton (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Victoria Berkun (Bat Yam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compositions and methods for inducing suspended animation in neonate larvae of beneficial fly, particularly larvae of the Black soldier fly. During the suspended animation, the larvae show extended shelf-life and ...