ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,264, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to XPERTSEA SOLUTIONS INC. (Quebec, Canada).

"Scale for determining the weight of shrimps" was invented by Julien Roy (Quebec, Canada), Cody Andrews (Shannon, Canada), Samuel Couture Brochu (Quebec, Canada) and Marnix Faes (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a scale for determining weight of one or more organisms contained in a sample. The scale generally has: a camera having a field of view orientable towards the sample and being configured for acquiring an image of the one or more organisms of the sample; a controller having a memory and a processor configured to p...