ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,712, issued on March 18, was assigned to TidaIX AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Monocular underwater camera biomass estimation" was invented by Julia Black Ling (Redwood City, Calif.) and Laura Valentine Chrobak (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for monocular underwater camera biomass estimation. In some implementations, an exemplary method includes obtaining an image of a fish captured by a monocular underwater camera; providing the image of the fish to a depth perception model; obtaining output of the depth perception...