ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,935, issued on June 3, was assigned to Katcher LLC (Round Rock, Texas).
"Using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect pest activity" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), Roger S. Hollander (Austin, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Shivshanker S. Naimpally (Leander, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a central hub receives, from a sensor node that is mounted to a wood item, a notification including sensor data comprising audio data captured by a microphone of the sensor node that is coupled to the wood item. The audio data is captured by the sensor node based at least in part on the...