US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on May 20 for "Robotic aquaculture system and methods" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,871, issued on May 20, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Robotic aquaculture system and methods" was invented by Joseph Ayers (Nahant, Mass.), Mark Patterson (Salem, Mass.), Jerome F. Hajjar (Newton, Mass.), Milica Stojanovic (Boston), Amy Mueller (Somerville, Mass.), Marc Meyer (Boston) and Scott Sagalow (Palmetto, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for robotic aquaculture are described. In one embodiment, for example, a mariculture system may include an aquatic animal containment system operative to hold a population of aquatic animals, the aquatic animal containment system comprising an enc...