US Patent Issued to CORAL SMART POOL on May 27 for "Method of removing underwater bubbles and a device therefor" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,931, issued on May 27, was assigned to CORAL SMART POOL LTD (Binyamina, Israel).

"Method of removing underwater bubbles and a device therefor" was invented by Oded Wigderson (Haifa, Israel), Tamar Avraham (Haifa, Israel), Eyal Golan (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Sagi Smolarski (Raanana, Israel) and Roman Pesikov (Tirat Carmel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of removing underwater gas bubbles from underwater devices such as cameras, optical lenses, or domes including acquiring a camera image or a sequence of images, applying a computer vision algorithm for detecting bubbles that stick to underwater cameras, optical lenses ...