US Patent Issued to Sanaria on Dec. 2 for "Mosquito egg cryopreservation" (Mississippi Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,575, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sanaria Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Mosquito egg cryopreservation" was invented by Eric R. James (Darnestown, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is described a method devised to cryopreserve mosquito eggs, viable upon subsequent thawing. The method reproducibly yields less than25% hatched first instar larvae of Anopheles-species mosquitoes from cryopreserved eggs. The majority of hatched larvae continue to develop normally (87% pupation), through to adults (98%, 50% of which are female) which subsequently blood feed and produce viable second generation embryos that also develop normally. Adu...