Patents by Inventor Scott A. Ritchie

Scott A. Ritchie 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).

  • Patent number: 12433283
    Abstract: A system includes an acoustic lure and a sensor package disposed within an interior volume of an insect trapping container and a computing device in communication with the acoustic lure and the sensor package configured to instruct the acoustic lure to output an acoustic tone. The computer device is further configured to receive sensor data from the sensor package, the sensor data representative of insects within the interior volume. Responsive to receiving the sensor data, the computing device is configured to instruct an imaging device to capture image data representative of the insects within the interior volume or determine insect count data based on the sensor data. The computing device is configured to then transmit output data to a remote computing system, the output data including at least one of a first portion of the image data or a second portion of the insect count data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Scott A. Ritchie, Kyran M. Staunton, Wei Xiang, Yu Han, Nigel Snoad, Jianyi Liu, Jacob Crawford, Mark Desnoyer