US Patent Issued to Vectech on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus and method of mosquito identification" (Maryland, California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,522, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Vectech (Baltimore).

"Apparatus and method of mosquito identification" was invented by Adam Goodwin (Baltimore), Sanket Padmanabhan (San Diego) and Kiley Gersch (Sherwood, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system for generating digital images of specimens and identifying the species of an invertebrate, such as a mosquito, are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging device capable of capturing images, light sources to illuminate the optical field of view of the imaging device, a housing enclosing the imaging device and the light source, and an opening in the housing where...