ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,781, issued on June 30, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for sensor-based environmental detection" was invented by Abdullah Saeed Almurayh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Alaa Yahya Alahmadi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anomaly detection system includes multiple sensors fixed within a user-selected environment to measure environmental conditions and wirelessly transmit data corresponding to the environmental conditions to a main device. The main device includes circuitry encoded with instructions from a trained machine learning model to identify on...