ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,918, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for photovoltaic fault detection using a feedback-enhanced positive unlabeled learning" was invented by Kristen Jaskie (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Joshua Martin (Geneva, Ill.) and Andreas Spanias (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and associated method for identifying and classifying faults in a photovoltaic array using relatively little labeled data are described herein. In particular, the system builds on existing PU classification techniques by addition of a feedb...