David L Roberts

Title: David L. Roberts and a Portable Parasite-Detection Device.

Introduction

David L. Roberts is an inventor associated with North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. His patent work describes a portable device designed to help identify parasites affecting food animals.

Latest Patents

Roberts is named on 1 patent: “Portable Device for Enumeration and Speciation of Food Animal Parasites.” The invention is designed to automatically count parasite eggs, identify their species, and assess their infectivity. It uses a chamber to hold a sample, a light source to illuminate the sample, and a microscope objective to magnify the field of view. A camera captures images and produces an on-site dataset, which a trained machine-learning model can analyze to identify parasite species.

Career Highlights

The patent highlights an approach that combines portable imaging with machine-learning analysis. By bringing sample imaging and analysis together in a device, the invention aims to support on-site assessment of parasites in food animals.

Collaborations

Roberts is associated with North Carolina State University. His coworker, Rocio Crespo, is also identified in the provided information.

Conclusion

David L. Roberts’s patent presents a portable, image-based system for counting and identifying food-animal parasites, with the goal of enabling on-site analysis.