ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,121, issued on March 4, was assigned to NAGOYA General Inc. Association (Nagasaki, Japan).

"Electric device and electric field barrier forming device" was invented by Satoshi Nagoya (Nagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device for repelling fish with Lorenzini organs includes (1) a generator having a power supply and output terminals including a first output terminal and a second output terminal, for converting a DC voltage supplied from the power supply to an AC voltage having an amplitude of less than 100V and outputting the AC voltage from the output terminals, (2) at least one electric wire, one or each of...