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US 11,991,993 B2Granted
Autonomous beehives
AssigneeBeewise Technologies LTD
InventorEliyah Radzyner
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Abstract
A beehive including: a plurality of honeycombs; and a disinfecting unit that heats one or more cells in at least one of the honeycombs.
Claims20
A beehive including:
- a plurality of honeycomb frames;
- Varroa mite diagnostic means;
- a processing unit configured to process signals from said Varroa mite diagnostic means and determine, for each cell in the frame that the cell is infected or not infected and provide an output signal indicating that at least one specific individual cell is infected by Varroa;
- and
- a disinfecting unit in said beehive configured to, in response to said output signal, heat one or more specific individual cells infected with Varroa in at least one of the honeycomb frames without heating one or more other cells in the same honeycomb frame not infected with Varroa.
2 more elements
A beehive including:
- a honeycomb;
- a plurality of heaters embedded in a respective plurality of cells of the honeycomb;
- and
- a controller configured to control heating of a specific cell by activating a respective at least one specific embedded heater while leaving other heaters in other cells of said honeycomb inactivated.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- identifying specific individual cells in a honeycomb frame that are infected with Varroa mites;
- disinfecting the specific individual cells that are infected with Varroa mite by heating while leaving non-infected cells in said honeycomb frame unheated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.