ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,137, issued on July 1, was assigned to Shandong University (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for collaborative heave compensation control of a dual ship-mounted hoisting arm system" was invented by Xin Ma (Jinan, China) and Fuhao Wang (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collaborative heave compensation control of a dual ship-mounted hoisting arm system including two vertical hoisting arms and two horizontal hoisting arms is provided, in which a dynamic model of the hoisting arm system is constructed based on hoisting arm position and velocity and an attitude angle of a load of the hoisting arm system; and based ...