US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 28 for "Insect specimen analysis system" (Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,638, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Insect specimen analysis system" was invented by Soumyadipta Acharya (Ellicott City, Md.), Margaret Glancey (Baltimore), Adam C. Goodwin (Baltimore), Laura Elizabeth Schiffrin Scavo (Bethesda, Md.), Jewell Brey (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Tristan Ford (Baltimore) and Collyn J. Heier (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insect trap analysis system may detect an insect specimen on a trap mechanism of an insect trap. The insect trap analysis system may control, based on detecting the insect specimen on the trap mechanism, one or more mechanical de...