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US 8,739,736 B2Granted
Systems and methods for the portable electroanesthesia of fish
AssigneeSmith-Root, Inc.
InventorFarland Michael Holliman
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Abstract
A portable fish anesthetizing system is also described having a tank cover, an electrode pair with the electrode pair configurable attached to the tank cover; a control system for creating a potential difference, the control system electrically connected to the electrode pair, so that when the tank cover is placed on a laboratory tank and the control system is activated, current flows from the control system through the electrodes.
Claims12
A portable fish anesthetizing system comprising:
- a tank cover,
- an electrode pair, the electrode pair directly mechanically attached to the tank cover;
- a control system for creating a potential difference, the control system electrically connected to the electrode pair;
- a laboratory tank, the laboratory tank having a top rim, a bottom, and four upward walls connected to the bottom;
- a camera removably positioned on at least one of the upward walls, the camera connected to the control system;
- so that when the camera is connected to the control system, a series of fish images are recorded in the tank, the control system then identifies a class of fish, and in response to the class of fish detected, thereby adjusts a current flow;
- wherein activation of the current flow from the control system through the electrode pair creating a potential difference, occurs upon placement of the tank cover on the top rim of the laboratory tank, so that the fish experiences a physiological response;
- wherein the physiological response is at least one of electronarcosis, electrotaxis, and euthanasia.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.