ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,198, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Wuhan University of Technology (Wuhan, China).

"Method and apparatus for penalty prediction and disposal decision of illegal fishing events" was invented by Hongchu Yu (Wuhan, China), Yuhao Xiao (Wuhan, China), Chen Chen (Wuhan, China) and Weihuang Wu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a method and apparatus for penalty prediction and disposal decision of illegal fishing events. The method involves acquiring a to-be-decided fishing event and a historical case dataset. The event and historical cases are preprocessed into sentence vectors. The most similar histor...