ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,973, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY (Hubei, China).

"Fusion network model-based crop yield inversion method and system" was invented by Zhaocong Wu (Hubei, China), Ruixin Fang (Hubei, China), Nan Xie (Hubei, China) and Kexin Wang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion network model-based crop yield inversion method and system, the method includes: obtaining meteorological data and remote-sensing image data in a study region; building a Long Short-Term Memory-Convolutional Neural Networks (LSTM-CNN) coupling neural network model by using LSTM and CNN; performing pretraining on the LSTM by using simula...