ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,898, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"System and method for estimating a length of underwater creatures" was invented by Ing-Jer Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Yun-Nan Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a length of underwater creatures and a system for estimating a length of underwater creatures are provided. The system includes a memory and a processor. The processor is electrically connected to the memory to load instructions in the memory to perform the method. The method includes: receiving a underwater image, in which the underwat...