ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,797, issued on May 19, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL PLANKTON INC. (Victoria, Canada).

"Apparatus, methods, and systems for maintaining healthy plankton populations" was invented by Robert Roulston (Victoria, Canada), Stuart De Haas (Victoria, Canada) and Wilson Hay (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of this disclosure is a method for maintaining a plankton population in a culture medium by removing particles from the culture medium. The method may comprise rotating a filter body to lift the particles from the culture medium with a filter of the filter body, positioning the filter relative to a conduit so that a ...