ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,901, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Southeast University (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and system for three-directional displacement monitoring of building by fusion of InSAR data and physical knowledge" was invented by Decheng Feng (Jiangsu, China), Yanan Du (Jiangsu, China) and Gang Wu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided method and system for three-directional displacement monitoring of building by fusion of InSAR data and physical knowledge. Time-series LOS-directional deformation displacement of region of study, where building to be monitored is located, from each orbit is acquired based on periodical observat...