ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,369, issued on June 23, was assigned to North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering (Langfang, China).

"CEEMDAN-based method for screening and monitoring soil moisture stress in agricultural fields" was invented by Xuqing Li (Langfang, China), Yongtao Jin (Langfang, China), Xiaodan Wang (Langfang, China), Guohong Li (Langfang, China), Xingfa Gu (Langfang, China), Yuanping Liu (Langfang, China), Xia Zhu (Langfang, China), Qichao Zhao (Langfang, China), Yuyan Liu (Langfang, China), Xiufeng Yang (Langfang, China), Yancang Wang (Langfang, China), Tianjiao Liu (Langfang, China), Wenhao Zhang (Langfang, China) and Chenyu Zhao (Langfang, China).

According to the abstract* released by...