US Patent Issued to Bayshore Innovations on Feb. 10 for "Thermo-mechanical device for capturing and exterminating ticks" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,722, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bayshore Innovations LLC.

"Thermo-mechanical device for capturing and exterminating ticks" was invented by Duncan Culver (Howell, N.J.), Valerie Ann Montecalvo (Highlands, N.J.) and Frank Charles Montecalvo (Rumson, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable arthropod harvesting machine includes a frame; wheels connected to the frame for moving along the ground; an attachment surface supported by the frame and configured for being attached to by an arthropod; and an extermination section supported on the frame and configured for exterminating the arthropod on the attachment surface."

The pa...