US Patent Issued to S. C. JOHNSON & SON on April 8 for "Apparatus and method of using a simulated skin substrate for testing insect repellants" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,195, issued on April 8, was assigned to S. C. JOHNSON & SON INC. (Racine, Wis.).

"Apparatus and method of using a simulated skin substrate for testing insect repellants" was invented by Thomas Michael Mascari (Milwaukee) and Richard W. Wadleigh (Racine, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a portable housing with a cavity, a heater disposed within the cavity of the housing, a temperature buffering device coupled to the heater and disposed within the cavity of the housing, a non-biological skin substitute substrate coupled to the temperature buffering device and disposed within the cavity of the housing, and a car...