ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,485, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (Nanjing, China).

"Remote sensing sub-pixel runoff inversion method based on improved vegetation index method" was invented by Ye Tian (Nanjing, China), Guoqing Wang (Nanjing, China), Xing Yuan (Beijing), Bingrong Zhou (Xining, China) and Shunan Xiang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote sensing sub-pixel runoff inversion method based on an improved vegetation index method includes: extracting an image of a target water from remote sensing satellite data; calculating a width of the target water using remote sensing data, ...