ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,465, issued on July 22, was assigned to FIIX INC. (Toronto).

"Machine learning powered anomaly detection for maintenance work orders" was invented by Mohammad Esmalifalak (Toronto), Akshay Iyengar (Toronto), Seyedmorteza Mirhoseininejad (Toronto), Peter Doulas (Toronto), Francis Emery (Toronto), Taylor Mathewson (Toronto), William Hogan (Toronto) and Min Hua Yu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial work order analysis system applies statistical and machine learning analytics to both open and closed work orders to identify problems and abnormalities that could impact manufacturing and maintenance operations. The analys...