ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,306, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for continuous insect sensing" was invented by Martin Sheridan (Redwood City, Calif.), Jianyi Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Matthew Metlitz (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for continuous insects sensing are described. One example method includes receiving a flow at a singulator, the flow comprising one or more insects; singulating the insects into a single-file flow of insects; sensing, using a sensor, insects within the single-file flow of insects; and incrementing a counter based on each sensed ins...