US 12,423,715 B2
Optimizing organic growth using spectral measurement
Eric John Eden, Champlin, MN (US); Richard Joel Faris, Nowthen, MN (US); and Delphine Marie Pierre Melchior, Crein (FR)
Assigned to CAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Wayzata, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/273,474
Filed by CAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Wayzata, MN (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/049438
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/051176, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/728,332, filed on Sep. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0319460 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/02 (2023.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0064 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
sensing an emitted spectrum from each animal of a plurality of animals, the plurality of animals comprising one or more aquaculture species, the emitted spectrum associated with a scan proximate a gill area of each animal;
filtering each emitted spectrum to a set of spectral values;
establishing a baseline for the plurality of animals based on the set of spectral values;
correlating the set of spectral values from at least one animal of the plurality of animals to at least one of a set of predetermined chemometric data and the baseline to determine a health metric indicative of a health condition of at least one animal of the plurality of animals, the health metric comprising one or more of a growth rate, a flesh color, and a biomineralization level of the gill area of the at least one animal; and
determining a recommendation based on the health metric, wherein the recommendation comprises a change in at least one of a feed, environment, or a medical treatment of the at least one animal.