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US 10,342,223 B2Granted
Mollusk with coated shell
AssigneeGloFish, LLC
InventorsAlan Blake, Richard Crockett
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to mollusk with fluorescent coatings. Also disclosed are aquarium kits comprising a tank, mollusk and an excitation light source.
Claims19
A mollusk comprising:
- a body;
- an external shell;
- and
- a fluorescent coating applied to the external shell, wherein:
- the coating is configured to fluoresce light when subjected to an excitation light;
- the relative brightness of the coating is determined by the difference in the intensity of the fluorescent light from the coating and the intensity of the excitation light;
- and
- the coating is configured to produce at least 25 percent of the maximum relative brightness of the coating when subjected to a light having a wavelength in a specific range.
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An aquarium kit suitable for fluorescent ornamental mollusks comprising:
- a tank;
- a mollusk comprising a coating configured to fluoresce on an external shell;
- and
- an excitation light source, wherein said excitation light source is mountable on said tank and said excitation light source is configured to produce excitation light at a first wavelength that causes the coating to fluoresce light upon exposure to said excitation light source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.