Patents by Inventor Pia Spinelli

Pia Spinelli has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Device developing an attractive and toxic action for fighting insects
    Patent number: 4879837
    Abstract: There is described a device which develops an attractive and toxic action for combatting insects, consisting of a substrate of fibers and/or fibrils containing, either in an adsorbed or dispersed form, a pheromone, and which is partially coated with a layer impermeable to the phermone, the layer carrying, adhering to its external surface, an insecticide or a substrate impregnated with an insecticide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Istituto Guido Donegani S.p.A.
    Inventors: Amedeo Capizzi, Emilio Arsura, Pia Spinelli
  • Dispenser for the slow release of volatile products
    Patent number: 4715536
    Abstract: Dispenser for the slow release of volatile pheromones comprising an adsorbing substrate of fibrils and/or fibers or their mixtures containing the active ingredient adsorbed or dispersed therein and coated with a layer which is impermeable to pheromones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: Montedison S.p.A.
    Inventors: Amedeo Capizzi, Pia Spinelli, Emilio Arsura
  • Sexual attracting mixtures for Cossus cossus (Lepidoptera)
    Patent number: 4656032
    Abstract: Mixtures containing (Z)-5-dodecenyl-acetate optionally combined with other compounds are shown to have a high attracting power for the male insects of the species Cossus cossus.Said mixtures may be employed in traps both for a monitoring action on the population density in a certain area and for mass-captures, or they may be employed for permeating the air in a certain zone, thus preventing the insects from mating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Montedison S.p.A.
    Inventors: Emilio Arsura, Amedeo Capizzi, Giorgio Cassani, Pia Spinelli, Cristina Tonini
  • Trap for insects
    Patent number: 4156321
    Abstract: There is provided a trap for capturing insects, the trap containing a sticky glue and an attracting substance and consisting of two rectangular plates of paperboard or other suitable foldable material, the plates being arranged in the shape of overlapping bent tiles with facing concavities and placed transversely to each other, so as to form four openings along the four different sides of the rectangular plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1979
    Assignee: Montedison S.p.A.
    Inventors: Amedeo Capizzi, Pia Spinelli