ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,857, issued on July 29, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and apparatus for anomaly detection on a doctor blade of a papermaking machine, and computing device" was invented by Kaihuan Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Liang Ding (Shanghai) and Gang Cheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for anomaly detection on a doctor blade of a papermaking machine includes obtaining doctor blade-related data, wherein the doctor blade-related data includes working condition data, status monitoring data, and design parameter data of the doctor blade, performing a predetermined data pre-processing on the doctor bl...