ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,028, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SECOND INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MNR (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and device for inverting ocean-atmosphere optical parameters and storage medium" was invented by Xianqiang He (Hangzhou, China), Tianfeng Pan (Hangzhou, China), Yan Bai (Hangzhou, China), Fang Gong (Hangzhou, China), Teng Li (Nanjing, China) and Difeng Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for inverting ocean-atmosphere optical parameters and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a vector apparent reflectance Rhol, RhoQ, RhoU of water-leaving radiance at top of atmosphere and observation g...