US Patent Issued to Google on June 23 for "Compressing insects for storage and release" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,793, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Compressing insects for storage and release" was invented by Charles Behling (Brisbane, Calif.) and Brian Wasson (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of compressing insects includes loading an insect container into a retainer. The method further includes adding a population of insects to an interior volume of a compression device. The method further includes adding a foam section to the interior volume of the compression device. The method further includes compressing the interior volume of the compression device and transferring the popul...