ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,583, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantification of oceanic carbon dioxide sequestration" was invented by Fearghal O'Donncha (Aran Islands, Ireland), Andrew James Stanford-Clark (Chale, Great Britain), Adam James Thompson (Ruderting, Germany), Ricardo Martinho (Lisbon, Portugal), Moritz Johannes Stabler (Cologne, Germany) and Jonathan Wright (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying oceanic carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration is provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of oceanic spatiotemporal carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements. A plurality...