ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,648, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TICK STICKER LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).
"Method of trapping ticks" was invented by Thomas Walter Jalowiec (Sauquoit, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of trapping ticks using a tick trap having a glue constructed to trap ticks touching the glue by sticking to the ticks, and a plant based scent formed from a part of a plant that attracts ticks to the glue, the method includes placing the trap on a location surface and using the tick attractant to attract ticks to the glue."
The patent was filed on Jan. 16, 2018, under Application No. 15/872,697.
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