ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,721, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Aquabyte Inc. (San Francisco).

"Position policy determination for underwater camera positioning in an aquaculture environment" was invented by Mochi Liu (Princeton, N.J.), Stephen Nuske (Pittsburgh), Bassem Youssef (San Jose, Calif.) and Darryl Weatherspoon (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method involve determining a policy for positioning an underwater camera in an aquaculture environment. The system and method include receiving data on previous camera positioning actions and results, using this data to determine a new camera positioning action policy, receiving ...