US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Pest detection and monitoring probe in a grain storage bin" (Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,681, issued on May 26.

"Pest detection and monitoring probe in a grain storage bin" was invented by Ding Gao (London, Canada), Huan Wang (Haikou City, China) and Yao Yao (Zhengzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pest detection and monitoring probe for monitoring pests in a grain storage bin is composed of: a rod insertable into a grain bed in the grain storage bin; a plurality of sensors connected to and supported by the rod, the plurality of sensors including: a temperature sensor for measuring temperature in the grain bed; a fumigant gas sensor for measuring concentration of a fumigant gas in the grain bed; and, a vide...