ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,694, issued on March 17, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Intelligent monitoring method and apparatus for abnormal working conditions in heavy metal wastewater treatment process based on transfer learning and storage medium" was invented by Keke Huang (Changsha, China), Haofei Wen (Changsha, China), Chunhua Yang (Changsha, China), Hongqiu Zhu (Changsha, China) and Yonggang Li (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent monitoring method and apparatus for abnormal working conditions in a heavy metal wastewater treatment process based on transfer learning and a storage medium are provided...