US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, United States Department of the Interior on Oct. 7 for "Sound bar for deterrence of asian carp" (Illinois, Mississippi, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,199, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Alexandria, Va.) and United States Department of the Interior (Reston, Va.).

"Sound bar for deterrence of asian carp" was invented by Christa M Woodley (Vicksburg, Miss.), Marybeth K. Brey (La Crosse, Wis.), John T Behrens (Rock Island, Ill.), Bjorn Z. Boydston (Rock Island, Ill.), Cory D DeLong (Milan, Ill.) and Frederick R. Joers (Rock Island, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a sound bar for producing engineered acoustic signals for keeping an animal away from one or more specific areas. The s...