US 12,433,268 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. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/380,242.
Application 17/067,694 is a division of application No. 16/479,648, granted, now 11,950,579, previously published as PCT/IL2018/050081, filed on Jan. 22, 2018.
Application 18/380,242 is a continuation of application No. 17/067,694, filed on Oct. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,785,926.
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 2024/0057574 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. G06V 40/10 (2022.01); A01K 1/03 (2006.01); A01K 67/30 (2025.01); 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)
CPC A01K 67/30 (2025.01) [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)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Method for sex-sorting of mosquitoes by extracting a class of mosquitoes from unsorted mosquitoes, the method comprising:
obtaining said unsorted mosquitoes;
placing said unsorted mosquitoes into a non-flying state;
obtaining images of individuals of said unsorted mosquitoes;
electronically classifying said individuals from said images into at least two classifications, said at least two classifications including male mosquitoes and female mosquitoes;
passing ones of said unsorted mosquitoes through a trapdoor; and
storing individuals of one of said classifications at a first location and to remove or store elsewhere individuals of another of said classifications, thereby to provide sex-sorted mosquitoes at said first location, wherein, if an individual is not classified as male by a predetermined time then it is classified as female.