US Patent Issued to SUEZ INTERNATIONAL on July 1 for "Combined method for detecting anomalies in a water distribution system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,102, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUEZ INTERNATIONAL (Paris, la Defense, France).

"Combined method for detecting anomalies in a water distribution system" was invented by Guillaume Cussonneau (Paris), Pierre-Antoine Jarrige (Montesson, France), Abel Dembele (Villeurbanne, France) and Francis Campan (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the detection of anomalies in a networked water distribution system is provided. It improves detection methods based on an iterative modification of control variables of the network, by determining a reduced set of entities of the water distribution network on which control va...