ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,465, issued on March 24, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).
"Method and system for submarine cable path planning" was invented by Xinyu Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Zengfu Wang (Xi'an, China) and Moshe Zukerman (Kowloon, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for ultra-long distance path planning includes (a) decomposing a target area into two initial sub-domains, the target area covering a path from a starting point to an end point, at an initial resolution along a direction connecting the starting point to the end point, (b) executing a Fast Marching Method (FMM) in par...