ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,182, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIPPON SUISAN KAISHA LTD (Tokyo).

"Feed for fish farming" was invented by Naoto Katayama (Tokyo), Hiromi Ito (Tokyo), Takahiro Nagashima (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Goto (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to improve the non-defective rate of a feed for fish farming comprising a feed of dual structure through betterment of the shape of an outer envelope of the feed so as to reduce the possibility of leakage, from both ends of the feed, of a liquid oil contained in an inner capsule. The feed for fish farming of Scombridae family fish includes an outer she...