ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,788, issued on April 21, was assigned to Everguard Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detection and prediction of cobble events" was invented by Yong Wu (Cypress, Calif.) and Changsoo Jeong (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring an industrial process are disclosed. The method may include receiving image information conveying a time-ordered series of images of the industrial process; generating segmentation maps for the images; identifying individual sets of the images that depict cobble event candidates; determining whether the cobble event candidates are actual co...