ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,904, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Shinkei Systems Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for automated fish processing" was invented by Saif Najam Khawaja (Hackensack, N.J.) and Zhifei Shen (Hackensack, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a live fish can include: determining a set of fish attributes of a fish, optionally sorting the fish based on the set of fish attributes, euthanizing the fish, exsanguinating the fish, and/or any other suitable steps. In variants, the method can additionally or alternatively include: discarding the fish after sorting, further processing the fish, and/or tracki...