ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,066, issued on Nov. 11.

"Machine learning-based prediction of increase in sea surface temperature" was invented by John Lucey (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting increase in average sea surface temperature (SST) are disclosed. The method includes setting a value of a first Boolean flag when at least one of an eclipse season start date and an eclipse season end date in a particular calendar year occurs in a period of thirty days preceding a timestamp for a particular partition in a plurality of partitions segmenting the particular calendar year. The method includes inputting to a trained m...