ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,552, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PIONEER MATERIAL PRECISION TECH Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Robot fish system" was invented by Chang-Qi Zhang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Li-Yuan Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tai-Yu Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jian-Jhih Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Shen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot fish system includes a robot fish, and a light-emitting device emitting a light signal. The robot fish includes a housing, on which first and second light receivers, a driving module and a processor are disposed. The processor is connected to the first and second light receivers and t...