ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,135, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (China).

"Optimization method and system for turbines of thermal power unit based on sparse big data mining" was invented by Jinxing Lin (Jiangsu, China), Mingjie Lu (Jiangsu, China) and Zhi Hu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimization method for turbines of a thermal power unit based on sparse big data mining in the technical field of turbine optimization. The optimization method comprises: acquiring historical operating data of a unit; selecting a set of controllable operating parameters highly correlated with the heat ra...