ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,416, issued on March 3, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Modelling of a fluid treatment system" was invented by Martin Antonio Morles (Katy, Texas), Lauren A. Flores (Katy, Texas) and Cheng Chen (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of modelling a fluid treatment system are provided herein. One embodiment comprises obtaining synthetic data for a fluid treatment system from a data store. The fluid treatment system comprises a membrane and the fluid treatment system is configured to receive a stream of fluid for treatment. The embodiment comprises training a machine learning pressure pre...