ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,025, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated non-synchronization and resolution to support decision making in complex systems" was invented by Yanchi Liu (Princeton, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.) and Motoyuki Sato (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting and resolving non-synchronization in a complex system, including acquiring monitoring data from multiple computers and devices within the complex system, preparing the acquired data by aligning data sequences from different sources based on timestamps, segmenting the prepared data into time wi...