US Patent Issued to Intervet on June 24 for "Method and system for external fish parasite monitoring in aquaculture" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,515, issued on June 24, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).

"Method and system for external fish parasite monitoring in aquaculture" was invented by Russel Howe (Glendale, Calif.), Zachary Lizer (Burbank, Calif.), James Wallace Sarrett (Sunland, Calif.), Peter Jon Abrahamson (Burbank, Calif.) and Jascha Tucker Little (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for external fish parasite monitoring in aquaculture, comprising the steps of: submerging a camera (52) in a sea pen containing fish, the camera having a field of view; capturing images of the fish with the camera (52); and identifying external fish parasit...