ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,289, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TidalX AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera calibration for feeding behavior monitoring" was invented by Grace Taixi Brentano (Redwood City, Calif.), Barnaby John James (Campbell, Calif.), Laura Valentine Chrobak (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Zhaoying Yao (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, there is provided a method that includes receiving, by a control system having (i) a first camera configured to obtain an image of a scene, (ii) a winch controller, and (iii) a feeding system configured to deliver a feed to aquaculture, instructions to initiate a calibration of th...