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US 2019/0343099 A1Published application
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.
Claims22
1-19. (canceled)
A method of making a fluorescent mollusk comprising the steps:
- providing a mollusk comprising:
- a body and an external shell;
- coating the external shell with a fluorescent coating, 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, thereby forming a fluorescent mollusk.
1 more element
An aquarium kit suitable for fluorescent ornamental mollusks comprising:
- a tank and
- a shell comprising a coating configured to fluoresce.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.