ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,273, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEPCOIII ELECTRIC POWER CONSTRUCTION Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Cloud occlusion prediction method based on dense optical flow method" was invented by Zengli Dai (Qingdao, China), Renbao Wang (Qingdao, China), Yu Xie (Qingdao, China), Xiupeng Song (Qingdao, China), Tao Li (Qingdao, China), Zhaohui Han (Qingdao, China), Dongxiang Wang (Qingdao, China) and Yu Jiang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a cloud occlusion prediction method based on a dense optical flow method. The method disclosed by the present invention can better predict the cloud occlusi...