ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,617, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Entropy field decomposition for analysis in a dynamic system" was invented by Lawrence R. Frank (San Diego) and Vitaly L. Galinsky (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Analysis of complex spatio-temporal data within a dynamic system that includes spatial positions and fields, at least a portion of which are interacting, includes determining values of mean field at every spatial position, determining spatio-temporal eigenmodes in spatial-frequency space assuming interacting fields, and determining spatial and temporal interac...