ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,061, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Meta Systems Laboratories Inc. (Kagoshima, Japan) and Ocean Solution Technology K.K. (Nagasaki, Japan).
"Fishing ship activity estimation device and fishing ship activity estimation program" was invented by Kentaro Oda (Kagoshima, Japan), Tomohiro Matsuo (Kagoshima, Japan) and Yosuke Mizukami (Nagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A velocity feature-vector data acquirer (225) acquires velocity feature vector data (SVF) containing detected velocity data (SV) indicating a chronological series of velocities of a fishing craft and velocity dispersion data (SVb) indicating a chronological ser...