ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,268, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Senecio Ltd. (Kfar-Saba, Israel).
"Method for sex sorting of mosquitoes and apparatus therefor" was invented by Hanan Lepek (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Tamir Nave (Kiryat-Ono, Israel), Yoram Fleischmann (Kibbutz Lehavot Haviva, Israel), Rom Eisenberg (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Baruch E. Karlin (Haifa, Israel) and Itamar Tirosh (RaAnana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for mechanical sex-sorting of mosquitoes by extracting a class of mosquitoes from unsorted mosquitoes comprises obtaining unsorted mosquitoes, obtaining images of individual mosquitoes in a stationary phase, electronic...