US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on Sept. 15 for "Portable device for enumeration and speciation of food animal parasites" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,883, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Portable device for enumeration and speciation of food animal parasites" was invented by Rocio Crespo (Raleigh, N.C.), David L. Roberts (Raleigh, N.C.), Michael Kudenov (Raleigh, N.C.) and S. Isaac Kellogg (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can automatically count, speciate, and determine infectivity of eggs of parasites in food animals. The device can include a chamber that can receive a sample specimen. Additionally, the device can include a light source. The light source can illuminate a field of view of the sample speci...