US 11,785,926 B2
Method for sex sorting of mosquitoes and apparatus therefor
Hanan Lepek, Kfar-Saba (IL); Tamir Nave, Kiryat-Ono (IL); Yoram Fleischmann, Kibbutz Lehavot Haviva (IL); Rom Eisenberg, Kfar-Saba (IL); Baruch E. Karlin, Haifa (IL); and Itamar Tirosh, RaAnana (IL)
Assigned to Senecio Ltd., Kfar-Saba (IL)
Filed by Senecio Ltd., Kfar-Saba (IL)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/67,694.
Application 17/067,694 is a division of application No. 16/479,648, previously published as PCT/IL2018/050081, filed on Jan. 22, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/533,242, filed on Jul. 17, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/529,057, filed on Jul. 6, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/458,065, filed on Feb. 13, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/449,050, filed on Jan. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022326 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A01K 67/033 (2006.01); A01K 1/03 (2006.01); A01M 1/02 (2006.01); A01M 1/22 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G05B 17/00 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/69 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01)
CPC A01K 67/033 (2013.01) [A01K 1/03 (2013.01); A01M 1/026 (2013.01); A01M 1/223 (2013.01); G01N 35/0099 (2013.01); G05B 17/00 (2013.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/698 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01)] 40 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Method for sex-sorting of mosquitoes by physically extracting a class of mosquitoes from unsorted mosquitoes, the method comprising:
obtaining said unsorted mosquitoes;
obtaining images and coordinates of individuals of said unsorted mosquitoes at an imaging location;
electronically classifying said individuals from said images into at least one member of a group of classifications including male mosquitoes and female mosquitoes;
using a mechanism to physically add to a storage individual insects corresponding to images of one classification and to physically remove individual insects corresponding to images of another classification, said removing using said obtained coordinates, thereby to provide a storage device containing the sex-sorted mosquitoes of one class alone for subsequent distribution, wherein said unsorted mosquitoes are one member of the group consisting of emerging pupae and adults, and wherein if said member is emerging pupae then said images are obtained following emergence, and if said member is adults, then said images are obtained while said adults are in a cooled or non-flying state.