ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,881, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Salmoclinic Spa (Puerto Varas, Chile).

"Continuous in-situ therapeutic treatment system for fish in freshwater, from seawater" was invented by Hans Jorg Kossmann Perl (Puerto Varas, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The proposed invention corresponds to a fish treatment system for disinfection and deworming in situ, using a system of tubes for the transport of live fish throughout the system in fresh water, obtained directly from salt water or spring water. sea, where the fish are transported by the different sections of the disinfection system from the diseased fish farming unit, through the ...