US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on July 29 for "Trapping bed net for mosquito control" (North Carolina, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,725, issued on July 29, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Trapping bed net for mosquito control" was invented by Chouaibou Seidou Mouhamadou (Raleigh, N.C.), Richard Michael Roe (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert D. Mitchell III (Raleigh, N.C.), Charles S. Apperson (Raleigh, N.C.), Marian Gayle McCord (Durham, N.H.) and Andre J. West (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mosquito control net includes an occupant chamber and a trap chamber disposed over the occupant chamber. The trap chamber has one or more openings disposed on an outer surface thereof, through which mosquitos enter the trap chamber, the...