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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Verily Life Sciences Llc, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Peeters, Redwood City, CA (US);
Peter Massaro, San Carlos, CA (US);
Tiantian Zha, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Victor Criswell, Burlingame, CA (US);
Nigel Snoad, Woodside, CA (US);
Peter Smith, Pacifica, CA (US);
Benjamin Krasnow, Redwood City, CA (US);
VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An insect separating apparatus may include a sensor positioned to detect one or more insects when present within a test chamber. For example, the sensor may emit signals into the test chamber and receive reflected signals indicative of Doppler shifts caused by movement of the one or more insects. Based on information from the sensor, a computing device may determine a characteristic of the one or more insects in the chamber, such as a wing beat frequency, sex, or other characteristic. The computing device may instruct different responses based on the characteristic determined, such as activating an air mover to divert detected mosquitos out of the test chamber in response to the determined characteristics matching those of female mosquitos, or deactivating or maintaining the air mover in an inactive condition in response to the determined characteristics matching those of male mosquitos, for example, to allow passage through the chamber into a collection receptacle.