Ready-to-place edible cockroach bait roll for contact-free
This technology is a cockroach bait pre-rolled inside edible rice paper, forming a small cylindrical tube that cockroaches enter and consume. The rice paper wrapper keeps the gel bait moist and effective while also allowing pest control technicians to place bait directly into cracks and harborages without touching the insecticide gel or leaving chemical residue on surfaces. A bittering agent is included to deter accidental consumption by non-target animals or people. The format is designed to improve both worker safety and bait effectiveness compared to standard gel bait application with a syringe.
What you could build
A pre-packaged, ready-to-place cockroach bait unit sold to professional pest control operators and commercial accounts (restaurants, hospitals, food processing facilities) as a cleaner, faster alternative to syringe-applied gel baits; pest management companies would buy these as a premium consumable SKU.
Who in Virginia should care
Pest management service companies and distributors operating in Virginia's large food service and hospitality corridor (Northern Virginia, Richmond, Hampton Roads) would be natural early commercial partners or buyers.
Readiness: Prototype likely
Concept — described but not yet demonstrated. Lab validated — supported by experimental results in the patent. Prototype likely — the text describes a built, working embodiment.
Readiness is inferred from the patent text, not from a lab visit.
The record
- Inventors
- Philip G. Koehler, Enrico Paolo Levi, Dini Miller, Morgan Wilson
- Granted
- October 21, 2025
- Status
- Granted patent
- Patent number
- 12446575
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Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties handles licensing for this technology.
Prosim summaries are generated from public patent text and are not legal advice.