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US 12,112,612 B2Granted
Pest control system having event monitoring
AssigneeSmart Wave Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJoe Triventi, Volodimir Bondarenko, Gavin Singh, Clemente Receno, Peter Zosimadis, Mike Zosimadis, Andrew Hunt
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Abstract
Pest control systems and methods are described. The systems comprise a portable electronic device which is configured to identify one or more of multiple PCDs within a range of a portable electric device which have been activated, and to provide an indication to a user corresponding to at least one of the identified activated PCDs.
Claims11
A pest control device (PCD) comprising:
- a PCD body, having a floor and a wall system defining at least one passageway from outside the PCD body to inside the PCD body, the floor including an entrance area and a bait area, the bait area being positioned within the PCD body such that a pest successively passes through the entrance area to reach the bait area;
- a first capacitive sensor configured to the PCD body between the entrance area and the bait area;
- a PCD controller connected to the first capacitive sensor, where the first capacitive sensor and PCD controller are configured to detect within a time frame a) a mass near or over the first capacitive sensor as an activation event and b) multiple movements near or over the first capacitive sensor as movement events, and wherein the PCD controller is configured to analyze activation and movement events to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.