ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,909, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Raymarine UK Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Air and sea based fishing data collection and analysis systems and methods" was invented by Adam Murphy (Manchester, N.H.) and Mark Johnson (Vannes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flight based marine object search, detection and identification systems and related techniques include an unmanned aerial system (UAS) having a flight platform configured to execute a search path to search for an underwater object, an imaging system comprising image capture components configured to generate a stream of images corresponding to a field of view of the...