ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,788, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CATCH DATA IP HOLDINGS LTD. (Kelowna, Canada).
"Method and apparatus for controlling pest animals" was invented by Mark Krehel (Kelowna, Canada), Ken Gauthier (Kelowna, Canada) and Joe Abercrombie (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling animal pests has a housing having a passage extending into the housing, the passage having a front wall and a rear wall, an impacting member movable across the passage from the front wall to the rear wall, the impacting member having a slidable arm extending out from the rear wall and having a free distal end having an impa...