ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,609, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY AT ZHUHAI (Zhuhai, China).

"Method and device for evaluating shipping risk caused by sea ice disaster, and computing device" was invented by Yingjun Xu (Zhuhai, China), Yu Yan (Zhuhai, China), Jizhe Gao (Zhuhai, China), Hua Zhang (Zhuhai, China) and Wei Gu (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and a device for evaluating a shipping risk caused by a sea ice disaster, and a computing device. The method includes: obtaining a historical daily-scale sea ice thickness data set of a monitored region; evaluating a risk level of ...