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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philip Edwin Howse, Gosport, GB;
Assignee:
University of Southampton, Southampton, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424405 ; 424408 ; 424409 ; 424410 ; 424411 ; 4241951 ; 424 84 ; 514699 ;
Abstract
A method of attracting insects selected from the group consisting of houseflies, mosquitoes and wasps to a particular location, which method comprises placing at the said location a lure containing an effective attractant composition which comprises at least one compound which is a substituted benzenederivative having one or more short side chains, the said compound being volatile at room temperature and having a molecular weight in the range of from 115 to 155.