US 12,112,612 B2
Pest control system having event monitoring
Joe Triventi, Toronto (CA); Volodimir Bondarenko, Toronto (CA); Gavin Singh, Toronto (CA); Clemente Receno, Toronto (CA); Peter Zosimadis, Toronto (CA); Mike Zosimadis, Toronto (CA); and Andrew Hunt, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to Smart Wave Technologies, Inc., Mounds View, MN (US)
Filed by Smart Wave Technologies, Inc., Mounds View, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/812,367.
Application 16/935,169 is a division of application No. 16/458,895, filed on Jul. 1, 2019, granted, now 10,991,230.
Application 17/812,367 is a continuation of application No. 16/935,169, filed on Jul. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,417,197.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/692,453, filed on Jun. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0041695 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G08B 25/00 (2006.01); A01M 23/38 (2006.01); G08B 13/26 (2006.01); G08B 29/18 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 25/009 (2013.01) [A01M 23/38 (2013.01); G08B 13/26 (2013.01); G08B 29/185 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pest control device (PCD) comprising:
a PCD body, having a floor and a wall system defining at least one passageway from outside the PCD body to inside the PCD body, the floor including an entrance area and a bait area, the bait area being positioned within the PCD body such that a pest successively passes through the entrance area to reach the bait area;
a first capacitive sensor configured to the PCD body between the entrance area and the bait area;
a PCD controller connected to the first capacitive sensor, where the first capacitive sensor and PCD controller are configured to detect within a time frame a) a mass near or over the first capacitive sensor as an activation event and b) multiple movements near or over the first capacitive sensor as movement events, and wherein the PCD controller is configured to analyze activation and movement events to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.