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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120031343 | Multi-factorial electronic shark repellant In abstract this invention is a pressure and water sealed unit small enough to be worn by a swimmer. It contains a rechargeable battery, control interface logic, digital signal generation, and amplification circuitry. It uses a ground balanced electrode system to produc... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110290190 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR REPELLING AQUATIC CREATURES This invention relates to a method of and apparatus for repelling aquatic creatures and finds particular application in the protection of surfers (or surfboards) and personal watercraft such as surf skis, paddle skis and the like from shark attack. The drawing illustrat... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110277693 | Systems and Methods to Control the Incursion of Fish into Seachests Described herein is an apparatus for the entrainment of fish from seachests having an anode, a cathode, a support structure for the anode and cathode proximate to the hull of a ship, such that when an electric current passes from the anode to the cathode, fish are entra... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110174231 | Systems and Methods for Remote Placement of Electrified Fish Barriers The inventive subject matter describes systems and methods for the remote placement of electrified fish barriers are illustrated and described herein. The inventive subject matter describes a floating electrical barrier that is responsive to the presence of detected fis... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110094451 | Magnetic field generator compressed into a housing using exothermic polymer for stabilizer used for shark deterrent Uses a specific magnetic field for shark deterrent. Over stimulates the electroreceptors in sharks and stingrays.... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20100313820 | Systems and Methods for the Portable Electroanesthesia of Fish 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 electrod... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100288203 | Systems and Methods for the Controlled Electrified Field Barriers A system and method is described for a controlled electrified fish barrier that induces a potential field in a body of water with an electric field generator, a control system, and an object detection system, so that when the anode and cathode of the electric field gene... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100242851 | Systems and Methods for Aquatic Electrified Barriers A flexible aquatic species barrier having a multiplicity of pulsators, each pulsator further comprising an anode lead, a cathode lead, and an potential difference generator, where each pulsator is proximately attached to a section of net, each section net comprising a a... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100224134 | Systems and Methods for Electrified Fish Barriers The inventive subject matter describes an electrical barrier for the deterrence of fish having an, the electrical barrier with a computer system capable of executing a modified soft-start algorithm, the computer system further having a detector input and a switch output... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100107986 | Systems and Methods for the Electric Field-Controlled Anesthetizing of Fish A system and method to induce fish anesthetizing or narcosis is described that induces a potential field across the body of a laboratory fish having a pair of electrodes, the waveform generated by this potential field is approximately balanced to reduce the introduction... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100071631 | Electronic Shark Deterrent An Electronic Shark Deterrent provides protection from, and for, sharks and other aquatic creatures. Compact low power circuitry generates high voltage periodic pulse train bursts, disturbing the electroreceptors of the aquatic Elasmobranchi subclass. A train of thirty ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20070199515 | Electromagnetic apparatus and methods for affecting behavior in elasmobranch fish The present invention provides an apparatus for selectively affecting the behavior of elasmobranch fish such as rays, skates and sharks, with electromagnetic waves. The apparatus comprises a power source, an electrical circuit capable of generating a selected voltage, c... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070199514 | Electromagnetic apparatus and methods for affecting behavior in elasmobranch fish The present invention provides an apparatus for selectively affecting the behavior of elasmobranch fish such as rays, skates and sharks, with electromagnetic waves. The apparatus comprises a power source, an electrical circuit capable of generating a selected voltage an... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20050074289 | High-flow sediment-free fish ladder A fishladder (10) for use along a waterway includes a channel having a bottom wall (16), a pair of opposing, up-wardly extending sidewalls (18a, b) and opposing open ends. A series of projections (20) are disposed along the channel bet... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050039692 | Shark repelling field generating cord A cord having two electrodes for generating a shark-repelling electromagnetic field about a user. The cord is connected to a field generator supported by the user, and in use, maintains contact with surrounding water, even if the user is out of the water. ... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050000465 | Shark repelling device A device (10) for repelling selected aquatic creatures, such as sharks. The device consists of an electromagnetic field generator (21, 30) for generating an electromagnetic field (50) that repels sharks and is supported by a buoyant device (20 | 01/06/2005 |
