ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,239, issued on Sept. 29.

"Systems and methods for prediction of decrease in sea surface temperature" was invented by John Lucey (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting decrease in average sea surface temperature (SST) are disclosed. The method includes setting a value of a Boolean flag to true when at least one of an eclipse season start date and an eclipse season end date in a particular calendar year occur in a first predefined number of days preceding a timestamp for a particular partition segmenting the particular calendar year. The method includes inputting to a trained machine learning...