ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,802, issued on April 22, was assigned to NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Systems, devices, and methods to support teamwork in collaborative geographic simulation experiments" was invented by Min Chen (Nanjing, China), Zaiyang Ma (Nanjing, China), Songshan Yue (Nanjing, China), Teng Zhong (Nanjing, China), Guonian Lv (Nanjing, China) and Yongning Wen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject pertains to systems, methods, and devices to provide improved teamwork guidelines for collaborators in geographic simulation experiments, whereby the collaborators can be led to participate in the geographic simulation...