ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,522, issued on April 14, was assigned to China University of Petroleum (Qingdao, China).

"Decision-making method and system for suspension operation of marine riser system based on digital twin" was invented by Xiuquan Liu (Qingdao, China), Yanwei Li (Qingdao, China), Pengji Hu (Qingdao, China), Zhaowei Liu (Qingdao, China), Na Qiu (Qingdao, China), Xianglei Wang (Qingdao, China), Yuanjiang Chang (Qingdao, China) and Guoming Chen (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a decision-making method and system for a suspension operation of a marine riser system based on a digital twin, which belongs to the technical fie...