ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,346, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Decision-making method and system for residential outdoor environment based on landscape approach motivation" was invented by Liya Wang (Nanjing, China), Zhe Li (Nanjing, China), Bingyu Hou (Nanjing, China), Hao Cao (Nanjing, China), Qiaochu Wang (Nanjing, China), Haini Chen (Nanjing, China), Mengyao Yu (Nanjing, China), Yi Shi (Nanjing, China), Yuheng Liu (Nanjing, China), Chaoming Li (Nanjing, China), Haonan Ding (Nanjing, China), Yulong Zhao (Nanjing, China) and Xinying Wu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decision-making method and syst...