ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,121, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predictive alerting and cutoff of hazardous water flow" was invented by Dharma Teja Atluri (Hyderabad, India), Siddhartha Sood (Ghaziabad, India), Santanu Ghosh (Kolkata, India) and Snehasish Ghosh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include accepting fluid parameter data about a fluid and identifying at least one safety threshold for the fluid. The operations may further inclu...