ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,477, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Ensemble coupled assimilation system for numerical prediction and method thereof" was invented by Li Liu (Beijing), Chao Sun (Beijing), Ruizhe Li (Beijing) and Bin Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an ensemble coupled assimilation system for numerical prediction and the method thereof. The ensemble coupled assimilation system includes a module for integrating coupled models and managing collaborative ensemble operation, an assimilation algorithms integration module, a module for configuring ensemble coupled assimilation experiment, and an ...