US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Fish identification apparatus and method" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,706, issued on July 28.

"Fish identification apparatus and method" was invented by Brian Patrick Moffatt (Hobe Sound, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fish detection system that is deployed behind a vessel and is trolled therebehind wherein the invention provides surveillance, tracking and identification of marine species. The invention includes a species database having a multitude of frames of video footage wherein the video footage has had the grid cell structure thereof analyzed. The video data within the species database is subjected to data augmentation and data optimization. A camera captures a live video stream sourced f...