ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,418, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to XIAMEN UNIVERSITY (Xiamen, China).

"Method for early warning of algal bloom levels based on Ordinal Forests model" was invented by Zhongyao Liang (Xiamen, China), Xinye Zhao (Xiamen, China), Nengwang Chen (Xiamen, China), Jixin Chen (Xiamen, China), Fan Qu (Xiamen, China), Yiqi Yu (Xiamen, China) and Shaobin Li (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for early warning of algal bloom levels based on an Ordinal Forests model includes the following steps: S1, preprocessing water quality data from a system for online monitoring of water quality and water ecology; S2, determining an a...