US 12,389,890 B2
Urchin culling mechanism and attractant method
Dennis Dwyane Yancey, Jr., Atlanta, GA (US); and Arthur McClung, III, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to COASTAL WATERS BIOTECHNOLOGY 2, INC., Atlanta, GA (US)
Appl. No. 17/916,089
Filed by COASTAL WATERS BIOTECHNOLOGY 2, INC., Atlanta, GA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/025898
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/207142, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/005,615, filed on Apr. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0143856 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. A01K 69/06 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 69/06 (2013.01) 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for attracting and monitoring marine life, comprising:
an underwater device, comprising:
a weighted base having a top, a bottom, and a side determined by a shape of the weighted base, the weighted base supporting a camera attached to the top of the weighted base;
an attractant apparatus suspended above the weighted base and connected to the top of the weighted base by an anchor affixed to a proximate side of the attractant apparatus;
a culling unit disposed between the weighted base and the attractant apparatus, the culling unit comprising:
a motor attached to the top of the weighted base,
a threaded center-rod extending above the motor,
a shaft coupling terminating the threaded center-rod, and
a culling plate with culling spikes disposed between the top of the weighted base and the shaft coupling, the culling plate with culling spikes having a top surface and a bottom surface;
a communications enabled buoy suspended above the weighted base and the attractant apparatus and connected to a distal side of the attractant apparatus by a flexible link;
a data cable communicatively coupled to the camera and the communications enabled buoy; and
a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the data cable and disposed within the communications enabled buoy.