ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,551, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Fault detection method for refrigeration units based on improved deep learning model" was invented by Qiang Ding (Hangzhou, China), Qixing Zeng (Hangzhou, China), Chong Shi (Hangzhou, China), Shuang Liu (Hangzhou, China) and Dechuan Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault detection method for refrigeration units based on an improved deep learning model is provided, including the following steps: S1: obtaining operating parameters of a refrigeration unit in a normal operating state and in states with different fault types as dat...