US Patent Issued to Intel on March 18 for "Real-time anomaly detection for industrial processes" (Washington, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,849, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time anomaly detection for industrial processes" was invented by Tara K. Thimmanaik (Vancouver, Wash.), Rita Chattopadhyay (Chandler, Ariz.) and David J. Austin (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device comprises interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives, via the interface circuitry, a video stream captured by a camera during performance of an industrial process, wherein the video stream comprises a sequence of frames; detects, based on analyzing the sequence of frames, a degree of particl...