US Patent Issued to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Method of treating red palm weevil infestation in palm trees" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,534, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of treating red palm weevil infestation in palm trees" was invented by Kwan San Hui (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah A. Alhamdan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Faramarz Djavanroodi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pest control device comprises a power supply configured to produce 250 to 1500 W, a microwave generator, a microwave emitter probe having a substantially cylindrical shape with a microwave emitter probe length of 5 to 50 cm and a microwave emitter probe diameter of 0.25 to 5 cm, a temperature mon...