ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,451, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Symterra Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Pest repellant system with compliant architecture" was invented by John Smalley (Tucson, Ariz.) and David Rogers (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a pest repellant system that includes pulse generator circuitry to generate pulses from a power source. The frequency and amplitude of the pulses are selected based on a selected pest species. One or more emitters are coupled to the pulse generator to generate pulsed fields to interfere with navigational/landing/nesting abilities of the selected pest species. The pulse genera...