ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,765, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting malfunctions within a gas distribution system" was invented by Daemian Raj Benjamin Raj (Fremont, Calif.), Hassan Ali (Santa Clara, Calif.), Travis Clark Mazzy (Fremont, Calif.), Thorsten Kril (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Vignesh Kumar Venkateshwar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Venkatanarayana Shankaramurthy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring and detecting a malfunction within a gas distribution system are provided. A system may first enable, by a controller, gas flow through a f...