ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,847, issued on July 22, was assigned to AspenTech Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Anomaly event detector" was invented by Jiangsheng You (Andover, Mass.) and Mikhail Noskov (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a computer-based tool that can identify an anomalous state of a component in a real-world environment, even if the component experiences gradual and/or seasonal trends. The tool receives data from sensors monitoring a component. The tool uses a trained machine learning model to calculate a predicted behavior of the monitored component. Actual behavior of the component, captured by current sensor rea...