US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Fractional ice cover predictions with machine learning, satellite, thermodynamics, and in-situ observations" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,628, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fractional ice cover predictions with machine learning, satellite, thermodynamics, and in-situ observations" was invented by Campbell D. Watson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Guillaume A. R. Auger (White Plains, N.Y.) and Eli Michael Dow (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of predicting ice coverage on a body of water includes generating a first ice cover prediction with a thermodynamics module and generating a second ice cover prediction with a machine learning module. The first ice cover prediction is ...