US Patent Issued to Southeast University on Nov. 4 for "Adaptive model updating algorithm for probabilistic analysis of complex engineering structures" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,988, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Southeast University (Jiangsu, China).

"Adaptive model updating algorithm for probabilistic analysis of complex engineering structures" was invented by Decheng Feng (Suzhou, China) and Yuxiao Wu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an adaptive model updating algorithm for probabilistic analysis of complex engineering structures. The method involves determining parameter distribution, sampling based on prior distribution, calculating likelihood values, and adaptively updating coefficients. Iterations include calculating a covariance matrix, generating intermediate parameters,...