ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,657, issued on June 2, was assigned to Senecio Ltd. (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

"Continual aerial release from drones" was invented by Hanan Lepek (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Rom Eisenberg (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Yoram Fleischmann (Kibbutz Lehavot Haviva, Israel) and Amir Ilan (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage and release mechanism for aerial distribution and release of insects from an unmanned aerial vehicle, the release being aimed at controlling a wild insect population, the wild population having fluctuating local densities, the mechanism comprising a switch for switching between two or more different sustainable insect del...