US Patent Issued to Pharmaq AS on Feb. 11 for "Live fish processing system, and associated methods" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,966, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Pharmaq AS (Overhalla, Norway).

"Live fish processing system, and associated methods" was invented by Jorn Stale Pettersen (Nesna, Norway), Remy Kristian Oddoy (Nesna, Norway), Johan Odd Moflag (Nesna, Norway) and Steffen Langseth (Nesna, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fish handling unit for processing live fish is provided. Such fish handling unit includes an inspection system configured to inspect a plurality of live fish. A conveyor assembly transports the live fish to the inspection system. At least one robotic cell is in communication with the inspection system. The robotic cell h...