Compositions for inhibiting the scent tracking ability of mosquitoes in environmentally defined three dimensional spaces

US7807721B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Biosensor, Inc. · US
• Bedouklan Research, Inc. · US
• The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · US

Inventors

• James A. Nolen · West Greenwich, US
• Robert H. Bedoukian · West Redding, US
• Robert E. Maloney · Bethel, US
• Daniel L. Kline · Gainesville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2005
• Grant date: Oct 5, 2010
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01N49/00
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Composition for inhibiting the ability of mosquitoes to locate a target by olfactory emissions of the target comprise a composition of at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of 3-methyl-1-alkene-3-ols of the formula:and 3-methyl-1-alkyn-3-ols of the formula:wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms, in a vehicle base that is a porous or waxy medium. The composition being capable of dispensing the inhibiting compound in an non-lethal amount effective to inhibit the ability of mosquitoes to sense a target in a three dimensional environmental space.