ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,497, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"AI-based alarm prediction in process control systems" was invented by Marcel Dix (Allensbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing alarms in a distributed control system, wherein the method comprises the following steps: monitoring at least one process parameter, activating an alarm when the process parameter exceeds an alarm threshold, deactivating an alarm when the process parameter no longer exceeds the alarm threshold, and determining by an AI based alarm control system before the alarm is activated at least one predicted alarm i...