ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,176, issued on April 29, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang, China).

"Cloud-edge collaboration forecasting system and method for aluminum oxide production indexes" was invented by Changxin Liu (Shenyang, China), Ning Yuan (Shenyang, China), Jinliang Ding (Shenyang, China) and Tianyou Chai (Shenyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cloud-edge collaboration forecasting system and method for aluminum oxide production indexes. The forecasting system performs forecasting algorithm selection, parameter configuration and model training on indexes and variables of the aluminum oxide production process at a cl...