ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,445, issued on Aug. 26.
"Ropeless fishing system and method" was invented by Harold Vincent (North Kingstown, R.I.), Andrew Dunne (Saunderstown, R.I.), Hayden Radke (Charlestown, R.I.), Colin Vincent (Smithtown, N.Y.), Timothy Alberg (Warwick, R.I.) and Michael Dunne (Warwick, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for ropeless fishing. The ropeless fishing system includes a surface subsystem installed on a vessel and at least one submerged subsystem submerged in a body of water. The surface subsystem includes acoustic transceiver and acoustic transducer units, which are configured to generate an...