ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,162, issued on April 8, was assigned to Beihang University (Beijing).

"Coevolution-based multi-beamforming optimizing method for space-based ADS-B" was invented by Xuejun Zhang (Beijing), Yuanhao Tan (Beijing) and Xueyuan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a coevolution-based multi-beamforming optimizing method for space-based ADS-B, which belongs to the field of aviation technologies. According to this method, after initializing population and acquiring an initial optimal solution, optimization parameters are firstly grouped randomly so that all beams form several significant uncovered regions...