ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,061, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).
"Method and apparatus for cockroach monitoring" was invented by Daniel Ronald Schwartz (Cottage Grove, Minn.) and Brandon Matthew Davis (Oswego, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cockroach monitor includes a monitoring chamber with one or more openings to allow cockroaches to enter. A light is emitted from a light emitter into the monitoring chamber and received by a photoelectric transducer for detecting cockroaches by analyzing the received light for obstruction in the path of the light. In various embodiments, a board having a sticky surface can be at...