ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,755, issued on May 13, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for automated fault detection" was invented by Jia Xuan Koh (Bedok, Singapore), Kaushik Ghosh (Bedok, Singapore), Saurabh Bhandari (Bedok, Singapore) and Gokula Krishnan Sivaprakasam (Bedok, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for automated fault monitoring and detection in a system. The fault detection method comprising receiving real-time device measurement data from a plurality of input and/or output devices in the system; identifying at least one relationship that correlates the real-time...