B2E Technological Sonar Initiative #3
B2E presents the third edition of our Technological Sonar initiative, a monthly selection of national and international initiatives to retain, within the scope of new patents and technologies in the blue bioeconomy sector. Check out this bunch of news!
Aquaculture
- This startup hopes to use COVID-19 vaccine technology to produce more efficient fish feed
US-based BioFeyn is developing technology aimed at improving feed efficiency through the use of nanocapsules: microscopic pills that can deliver targeted nutrients and pigments into feed pellets.
In IntraFish
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- Research on sea urchin aquaculture in Figueira da Foz becomes a business
A scientific investigation linked to the production of sea urchins in aquaculture carried out in the laboratory of the University of Coimbra (MAREFOZ/UC) located in Figueira da Foz, will serve as the basis for a business project aimed at marketing that product.
In Executive Digest
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- Analysis and sorting in aquaculture
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for sorting fish in aquaculture. In some implementations, one or more images are obtained of a particular fish within a population of fish. Based on one or more images of the fish, a data element is determined. The data element can include a first value that reflects a physical characteristic of the particular fish, and a second value that reflects a condition factor of the particular fish. Based on the data element, the fish is classified as a member of a particular subpopulation of the population of fish. An actuator of an automated fish sorter is controlled based on classifying the particular fish as a member of the particular subpopulation of the population of fish.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- Intelligent waterbody management system
The current invention relates to artificial intelligence, internet of things-based water body management system. The water body management system of the invention comprises an aeration module, a nutrient dispensing module, and a sensor module that monitors and maintains water quality parameters. The artificial intelligence module configured with the sensor module trains the data obtained from the sensors and inputs to the aeration, nutrient dispensing or other modules. The current invention has applications in aquaculture management, management of water bodies like lakes, reservoirs and ponds.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- Configuration structure of culture pond and solar power generation device
Disclosed is a configuration structure of a culture pond and a solar power generation floating device. As such, the configuration structure has the functions of generating power and providing a better culture environment.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- Immune-enhanced Aquaculture
Aquaculture systems and methods are provided, as well as immunogenic compositions and methods of immunologically protecting bivalves against specified pathogens. Methods include inactivating specified pathogens using UV (ultraviolet) radiation, exposing invertebrates grown or to be grown in aquaculture to the specified UV-inactivated pathogens to enhance an immune reaction of the exposed invertebrates toward the specified pathogens, and growing the exposed invertebrates in aquaculture. For example, the methods were demonstrated to increase the immune response of oysters to ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) following their prior exposure to UV-inactivated OsHV-1.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- New technology shown to reduce nitrites in RAS without biofilters
The patented electrocoagulation (EC) technology has proven its ability to remove ammonia within a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) before it converts to nitrites. The NaturalShrimp technical team has now discovered that the EC system could also reduce nitrites without the need for a biofilter in RAS that might experience a build-up of nitrites.
In The Fish Site
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Living Marine Resources
- Texture improvement process for canned small pelagic fish
The present invention relates to a process for improving the sensory quality of pelagic fish 12-16 cm in size, wherein the conditions of the stages of indirect cooking at a temperature of 90-95°C for 20-40 minutes and light drying at a temperature of 30-40°C for 13-20 minutes, carried out prior to packaging, make it possible to significantly improve fish skin texture for the packaging operation and for the final customer.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- Process for the preparation of marine sausages based on cephalopods
Process of preparation of marine sausages characterized in that octopus heads are taken in a quantity over 90% in weight of the final sausage and cooking is performed between 40 and 60 minutes, said octopus heads are lowered to a temperature below 3°C for 40 to 60 minutes, said heads are crushed at a temperature between 0°C and 4°C, salt, vegetable fat and colatura di alici are added to the crushed heads and the mixture is amalgamated between 10 and 30 minutes at a temperature between 0°C and 4°C. Giving an amalgamated mass that stabilizes at a temperature between 0°C and 4ªC for a time between 8 and 16 hours; the amalgamated mass is then stuffed into casing.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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Marine Biotechnology
- Application of sulfated polysaccharides against novel coronavirus
An application of sulfated polysaccharides against the novel coronavirus. Sea cucumber polysaccharides, fucoidan, or carrageenan have been confirmed to be capable of binding to the S protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, preventing the cell membrane of body cells from adsorbing or internalising the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thereby preventing the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting the body cells, indicating that sea cucumber polysaccharides, fucoidan, or carrageenan have the effect of preventing or treating pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- Marine Bacterial Exopolysaccharide Derivatives and Uses Thereof in the Treatment of Mucopolysaccharidoses
The invention provides low-molecular-weight over-sulfated polysaccharides with anti-heparanase activity prepared from marine native exopolysaccharides excreted by mesophilic marine bacteria from a deep-sea hydrothermal environment and relates to the use of these low-molecular-weight over-sulfated polysaccharides for the prevention or treatment of mucopolysaccharidoses, in particular mucopolysaccharidoses type III (Sanfilippo syndrome).
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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- Method for surveying ecosystem in water environment by using environmental RNA
Provided is a simple and highly accurate method for surveying an ecosystem while applying less burden on the environment. A method for analyzing biological species living in a water environment. In this method, RNA included in a water environment is analyzed to quantitatively assess and comprehensively identify the biological species living in the water environment.
In Patent Scope / World Intellectual Property Organization
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