US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 5 for "Real-time monitoring and early detection system for insect activity in grains during storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,184, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Real-time monitoring and early detection system for insect activity in grains during storage" was invented by Ragab Khir (Davis, Calif.) and Zhongli Pan (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for real-time monitoring of insects includes a smart trap and an image processor. The smart trap includes a chamber with perforations sized to admit insects into an interior of the smart trap; a collection chamber located within the interior of the smart trap; and an imaging system for capturing images that include the collection c...