ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,638, issued on Sept. 9.
"Responsive dispersion from compartment in aqueous solution" was invented by Arthur J. Zito Jr. (Swampscott, Mass.) and William R. Zito (Millersville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buoy that includes a first sensor to measure a change of an environmental event, a compartment that contains at least one organism, a second sensor to determine a maturity of the at least one organism, a release mechanism to release the at least one organism from the compartment to the body of water, an adjustable aperture nozzle mounted to the buoy to disperse the at least one organism from the compartment in a rate proport...