ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,052, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Near space atmospheric state simulation method and device based on quantum walk" was invented by Zhaoyuan Yu (Nanjing, China), Xu Hu (Nanjing, China), Wen Luo (Nanjing, China), Linwang Yuan (Nanjing, China) and Binru Zhao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near space atmospheric state simulation method and device based on the quantum walk comprises: firstly, based on a characteristic of a near space atmosphere changing along with latitude, dividing a study region into a plurality of bands according to the latitude; secondly, based on a ...