US 11,950,579 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)
Appl. No. 16/479,648
Filed by Senecio Ltd., Kfar-Saba (IL)
PCT Filed Jan. 22, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IL2018/050081
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 22, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/134829, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 26, 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 2020/0154685 A1, May 21, 2020
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 3/045 (2023.01); 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)
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)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Method for mechanical sex-sorting of mosquitoes by extracting a class of mosquitoes from unsorted mosquitoes, the method comprising:
obtaining said unsorted mosquitoes;
identifying individuals of said unsorted mosquitoes while said individuals are in a stationary phase, the individuals remaining in said stationary phase long enough to allow for identification;
obtaining images of individuals of said unsorted mosquitoes, said images showing said individuals while in said stationary phase;
electronically classifying said individuals from said images into at least one member of a group of classifications including male mosquitoes, female mosquitoes, and unclassified objects;
obtaining co-ordinates of individuals of at least one of said male mosquito and female mosquito classifications, said coordinates relating to a position of a respective individual in said stationary phase;
using a robot arm to reach an individual identified by ones of said obtained coordinates while said individual is in said stationary phase, to store or remove said individuals, thereby to provide sex-sorted mosquitoes.