ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,973, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Marine Technologies LLC (Cut Off, La.).

"Conditional online-based risk advisory system (COBRAS)" was invented by Tor Eirik Oestrem (Covington, La.) and Kjell Erik Larsen (Mandeville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An advisory system of a vessel that monitors variables of a vessel system inclusive of systems and subsystems that are used to operate the vessel. The advisory system may use machine-learning to learn from an operator (i) whether or not two variables are related to one another, and (ii) likelihood that a variable will reach a threshold, and, optionally, time until reaching the thres...