US Patent Issued to S. C. JOHNSON & SON on June 2 for "Remote insect detector" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,005, issued on June 2, was assigned to S. C. JOHNSON & SON INC. (Racine, Wis.).

"Remote insect detector" was invented by Nathan Woodbury (Vancouver, Canada), Anthony Hoover (Vancouver, Canada), Naseem Hammoud (Vancouver, Canada) and Zachary Morris (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved remote insect detector is disclosed. The detector includes a housing. The detector further includes an insect funnel passage located on an underside of the housing and dimensioned to retain a target insect in a detecting position and an optical beam detection circuit operable to detect the target insect in the detecting position."...