US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Aug. 19 for "Fan behavior anomaly detection using neural network" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,126, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Fan behavior anomaly detection using neural network" was invented by Eric Warner (Hudson, N.H.), Michael R. Salpukas (Lexington, Mass.), Arjang J. Noushin (Nashua, N.H.), Daniel J. Tipaldo (Arlington, Mass.) and Daniel D. Sheahan (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for predicting fan failure. A method includes providing, to a first NN that models nominal behavior of a first fan and provides a value indicating a first amount of deviation from nominal as an output, first parameters of fan op...