US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation on March 31 for "Systems, methods, and devices for detecting harmful algal blooms" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,939, issued on March 31, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for detecting harmful algal blooms" was invented by Bradley Reisfeld (Wellington, Colo.), Steven J Simske (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Edward Hall (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and devices for detecting harmful algae blooms. An example system includes autonomous watercraft; and a computing device operably connected to the autonomous watercraft over a network, the computing device including a processor and a memory having computer-executa...