ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,499, issued on April 15, was assigned to DONGHAI LABORATORY (Zhoushan, China).

"Low-energy-consumption floating automatic oceanographic and meteorological observation platform" was invented by Qian Li (Zhoushan, China), Ruyan Chen (Zhoushan, China), Zhiguo He (Zhoushan, China), Yonghui Liu (Zhoushan, China), Xuancheng Liu (Zhoushan, China), Xin Zhang (Zhoushan, China) and Sai Zhang (Zhoushan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a low-energy-consumption floating automatic oceanographic and meteorological observation platform, comprising a meteorological observation module, a sea surface monitoring module, and a profile ob...