US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Sept. 9 for "Confined enclosure insect capture device with adhesive gap" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,649, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Confined enclosure insect capture device with adhesive gap" was invented by Daniel Ronald Schwartz (Saint Paul, Minn.), Jonathan Lee Glawe (Saint Paul, Minn.), Magdalene Rose White (Saint Paul, Minn.), Joshua J. Lanz (Saint Paul, Minn.), Douglas B. Gardner (Saint Paul, Minn.), Larry Lake (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Daniel Davis Anderson (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insect capture device is used to monitor, capture, and/or kill insects. The device has a raised portion to create a gap between a surface and the device to entice insects to ...