ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,786, issued on March 31, was assigned to HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Harbin, China).

"Intelligent ammunition co-evolution task assignment method" was invented by Yuliang Bai (Harbin, China), Ningyu Wang (Harbin, China), Yongzhi Shan (Harbin, China), Long Zhang (Harbin, China), Liangchen Xu (Harbin, China), Yuan Li (Harbin, China) and Xiaodong Ma (Harbin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent ammunition co-evolution task assignment method is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. A chromosome gene encoding of genetic algorithm for ammunition assignment scheme of multi-platform interception operation is ...