Anophelyze Anophelyze LLCFounded 2026Patent pending

Vector control hardware · in development

A device that finds mosquitoes and takes them out of the air.

Built for the places where mosquito-borne disease actually kills people — not for suburban patios. Anophelyze is an early-stage hardware company developing a patent-pending system for vector mitigation in malaria- and dengue-endemic regions.

Engagement sequence Simulation · not to scale

The system

Three problems, one machine.

Each is hard on its own. Solving them together — in something that has to run unattended, survive heat and dust, tolerate unreliable power, and cost little enough to deploy at scale — is the work.

Detection

Picking a mosquito out of everything else moving through a field at dusk, when the mosquitoes are most active and the light is worst.

Engagement

Acting on a target fast enough that it can't escape, without the air-current warning that lets a mosquito ride out a swat.

Safety

Eye-safe by design, around people and livestock. No fire risk, no corneal or retinal damage, no burns — the constraint every other decision is built around.

Status

Where it stands today.

Stage
Prototype development
Target deployment
Malaria- and dengue-endemic regions, prioritizing settings where bed nets and spraying have fallen short
Intellectual property
U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 19/751,195, filed July 23, 2026 — “A Device for Detecting and Incapacitating Hazardous Disease Vectors”
Claiming priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/849,611, filed July 23, 2025
Entity
Anophelyze LLC
Team
Camden Towne, owner and president — family physician with training in HIV and addiction care, and a Master of Public Health
Disciplines
Computer vision, embedded control, mechanical design, field entomology
Approach
Environmentally neutral — no DDT-class chemistry, no broadcast spraying
Featuring the specificity of computer vision with the power of an environmentally safe formula to incapacitate mosquitoes

Why this matters

The deadliest animal on earth is an insect.

Malaria, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika cause preventable death and life-disrupting illness across sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America, and hit young children hardest. Insecticide-treated nets and indoor spraying have saved millions of lives, but their gains have stalled against insecticide resistance and vectors that bite outdoors and early in the evening. Anophelyze was founded in 2026, after several years of preparation, out of a need for environmentally neutral approaches that work where those tools don't.

All three Two One None
Malaria, dengue, and yellow fever risk, shaded by how many of the three occur. Shown at country level.

Sources: WHO World Malaria Report · WHO and CDC yellow fever endemic country lists · CDC areas with risk of dengue · Boundaries: Natural Earth

Field note

Contact

Camden Towne

Owner and president. Questions about the device, the patent, or where the work stands reach him directly.

camden@anophelyze.com