ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,196, issued on April 8, was assigned to YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fish counting system, fish counting method, and program" was invented by Yasuhiro Ueda (Osaka, Japan), Yuichiro Dake (Osaka, Japan), Toshiaki Sakai (Itami, Japan) and Makoto Tani (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fish counting system has: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of images wherein a fluid containing fish is imaged over time; a counting unit for counting the fish on the basis of the plurality of images; a fish count change display provision unit for providing a fish count change display, wherein a display c...