ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,864, issued on March 31, was assigned to EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY (Greenville, N.C.).

"Wind tunnel for assessment of insecticides" was invented by Stephanie Lynn Richards (Winterville, N.C.) and Sinan Sousan (Greenville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind tunnel system is configured to assess insecticides. The system includes: a chamber having an inlet configured to receive a gas flowing into the chamber and an outlet configured to output the gas from the chamber; an inlet filter configured to filter the gas flowing into the chamber; an outlet filter configured to filter the gas flowing out of the chamber; an aerosol generat...