ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,871, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dobyns Rods (Sulphur Springs, Texas).
"Tagging and culling system for fishing" was invented by Daniel Paul Wilder (Yuba City, Calif.) and Gary Wayne Dobyns (Sulphur Springs, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tagging, culling, or tagging and culling fish include various elements. For example, the systems and methods may be implemented on a scale for weighing fish and may maintain a pre-determined color order to suggest a next-up color for a cull tag. In addition, the pre-determined color order may be dynamically updated in real time to account for overrides by an angle...