ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,870, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wave transmission control device, underwater organism guidance device, and wave transmission control method" was invented by Koji Ibata (Tokyo), Jin Hirano (Tokyo), Tomoharu Awano (Tokyo) and Tai Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave transmission control device to control a transmitter to form a sound field in water includes processing circuitry to, when detection information is input from a sensor to detect an organism in water, determine a characteristic of the organism and a distribution state for every characteristic using the detection in...