US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Aug. 4 for "Crawling insect pitfall trap and methods of using" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,891, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Crawling insect pitfall trap and methods of using" was invented by Daniel Ronald Schwartz (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Morgan Ann Manderfield (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Alicia Nichole Gettis (Northfield, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crawling insect pitfall trap configured be placed on a surface can include a plurality of connected walls and a fibrous layer. The plurality of connected walls can be configured to rest on the surface and can each be sloped to form a pitfall cavity and to form a top edge at an opening of the pitfall cavity. The pluralit...