US 12,032,114 B2
Pest detection using sensor with textured surface
Larry Arvid Lake, Woodbury, MN (US); Morgan Ann Manderfield, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US); Joelle Francine Olson, Hanover, MN (US); Liliana Reategui, Saint Anthony, MN (US); and Daniel Ronald Schwartz, Eagan, MN (US)
Assigned to Ecolab USA Inc., Saint Paul, MN (US)
Filed by Ecolab USA Inc., Saint Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/455,875.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/116,066, filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0155477 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G01V 3/02 (2006.01); A01M 99/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01V 3/02 (2013.01) [A01M 99/00 (2013.01); A01M 2200/011 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pest detection device, comprising:
a capacitive sensor coated at least in part with a coating that allows climbing pests to climb across a sensing surface disposed at a nonhorizontal angle, wherein the coating has at least MT-11007 of texture.