ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,784, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Jiangsu Second Normal University (Nanjing, China).

"High-precision solar resource assessment method based on downscaling method for complex terrain" was invented by Tong Jiang (Nanjing, China), Han Jiang (Nanjing, China), Xikun Wei (Nanjing, China), Cheng Jing (Nanjing, China), Jiahui Zhang (Nanjing, China), Jian Zhou (Nanjing, China), Miaoni Gao (Nanjing, China) and Jinlong Huang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-precision solar resource assessment method based on a downscaling method for complex terrain includes steps as follows. Step (1): an average climatic field is calc...