ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,315, issued on Sept. 30.
"System for establishing a digital interconnection between vessels for collection of micro-plastics in a secured way" was invented by Nobuyoshi Morimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for establishing a secured digital interconnection between vessels and optimizing a route of a vessel (1) for collecting maximum micro-plastics (30) from an aquatic environment, the system comprising: a collection unit (40) through which water containing micro-plastics (30) flows, a first set of sensors (60) operationally coupled to the collection unit (40) and configured to genera...