US Patent Issued to JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 27 for "Fish count calculation method, fish count calculation program, and fish count calculation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,872, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Fish count calculation method, fish count calculation program, and fish count calculation device" was invented by Haruka Nishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichi Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsu Kuwatani (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Matsuoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshitaka Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, an estimator for estimating the number of fish present in an underwater space is constructed by means of machine learning using, as teaching ...