US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on April 8 for "Universal small insect vector trap" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,200, issued on April 8, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Universal small insect vector trap" was invented by Russell F. Mizell III (Monticello, Fla.) and Xavier P. Martini (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal insect trap having multiple points of entry is described being capable of capturing various types and sizes of insects. The universal insect trap may be used to capture and preserve target species such that genomes can be analyzed for specimens, which is beneficial in determining infection rates, strains of a vector or a pathogen, identifying associated...