ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,906, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Shanghai Maritime University (Shanghai).

"Method and device for reconstructing lost data of marine wireless sensor networks" was invented by Jiangfeng Xian (Shanghai), Junling Ma (Shanghai), Huafeng Wu (Shanghai), Yongsheng Yang (Shanghai), Yuanyuan Zhang (Changzhou, China), Xiaojun Mei (Shanghai), Xinqiang Chen (Shanghai), Chaofeng Li (Shanghai), Qiannan Zhang (Shanghai) and Linian Liang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and a device for reconstructing lost data of marine wireless sensor networks (MWSNs). The data reconstruction method includes following steps: est...