ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,187, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Remote sensing inversion method, system, device and computer readable storage medium for aerosol component distribution" was invented by Ting Yang (Beijing), Futing Wang (Beijing), Zifa Wang (Beijing), Wei Zhang (Beijing), Hongyi Li (Beijing) and Lei Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the technical solution of the present invention, a vertical mass concentration curve of fine aerosol component distribution can be obtained based on remote sensing test cooperation of a ground Lidar and a solar photometer,...