ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,005, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, China).

"Method and device for dust identification utilizing multimodal neural network, and storage device" was invented by Siyu Chen (Lanzhou, China), Jiaqi He (Lanzhou, China), Shikang Du (Lanzhou, China), Linchang An (Lanzhou, China), Yunqian Guo (Lanzhou, China) and Junyan Chen (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dust identification includes following steps: collecting multi-source data related to dust; preprocessing the multi-source data to obtain processed data; constructing a training set for a dust identification model using the proce...