ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,488, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TidalX AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image processing-based weight estimation for aquaculture" was invented by Barnaby John James (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for fish weight estimation based on fish tracks identified in images. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining images of fish enclosed in a fish enclosure, identifying fish tracks shown in the images of the fish, determining a quality score for each of the fish tracks, selecting a subset of the fish tracks bas...