US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Aug. 19 for "Propagation-based fault detection and discrimination method and the optimization of sensor deployment" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,478, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Propagation-based fault detection and discrimination method and the optimization of sensor deployment" was invented by Boyuan Li (Columbus, Ohio), Carol Smidts (Columbus, Ohio) and Xiaoxu Diao (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model (137) is created of a system (110) to be monitored (805). Operating states of the monitored system, including steady and transient states, are identified. Faults are injected into the model and the model is used to simulate each of the identified operating states (810). Results of each simulation are...