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- Patent Title: Device for detecting insect larvae and adult insects in stored products by sensing their volatile pheromones and semiochemicals
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Application No.: US16558490Application Date: 2019-09-03
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Publication No.: US11272699B2Publication Date: 2022-03-15
- Inventor: Nicholas Joseph Smilanich , Samuel Firestone Reichert , Frank Bernard Tudron
- Applicant: Sensor Development Corporation
- Applicant Address: US OH Elyria
- Assignee: Sensor Development Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sensor Development Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Elyria
- Agency: Fay Sharpe LLP
- Main IPC: A01M1/02
- IPC: A01M1/02 ; G01N27/12 ; G01N33/00

Abstract:
Minimal-cost, high-accuracy, and portable devices used to detect the presence of insects at all stages of life, including in the egg stage, in stored products by sensing gas phase markers such as volatile pheromones, semiochemicals, and kairomones. The methods, devices, and systems disclosed herein utilize a sensor array configured to simultaneously measure a plurality of target markers and filter background gases while remaining compact, highly accurate, and easy to operate.
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