ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,392, issued on March 4, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Generating soft sensors for mechanical systems using sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics" was invented by Iron Tessaro (Parana, Brazil), Leandro dos Santos Coelho (Parana, Brazil), Viviana Cocco Mariani (Parana, Brazil) and Roberto Zanetti Freire (Parana, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a soft sensor for a mechanical system includes defining a training dataset of sensor values received from at least one first sensor corresponding a first physical quantity. The method further includes training a Sparse Identification o...