ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,490, issued on March 25, was assigned to Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lanzhou, China) and Hexi University (Zhangye, China).

"Multi-antenna single-station stereoscopic-arrangement ultra-short baseline lightning location method and related device" was invented by Xiangpeng Fan (Lanzhou, China), Yijun Zhang (Lanzhou, China), Yajun Li (Zhangye, China), Yuhui Zhang (Lanzhou, China), Guo Zhao (Lanzhou, China) and Tong Zhang (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multi-antenna single-station stereoscopic-arrangement ultra-short baseline lightnin...