US Patent Issued to ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT, HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG on Nov. 25 for "Devices for the voluntary self-sorting of live aquatic animals" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,049, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT, HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG (Bremerhaven, Germany).

"Devices for the voluntary self-sorting of live aquatic animals" was invented by Mirko Boegner (Bremerhaven, Germany) and Amirhossein Karamyar (Bremerhaven, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for voluntary self-sorting of live aquatic animals, including at least one passage device, by which a water tank is divided into a passage-facilitating region and a passage-obstructing region. The at least one passage device has a plurality of passage openings that can be adapted in size to the a...