ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,577, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TidalX AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Underwater net monitoring device" was invented by Harrison Pham (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thomas Robert Swanson (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A net monitoring system, including: a plurality of net monitoring devices, each net monitoring device including: a housing; a plurality of tensioning arms, each tensioning arm reversibly extendable through the housing and configured to reversibly secure to a net, each tensioning arm including a force sensor configured to generate a tension signal indicative of a tension applied to the correspond...