ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,497, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated operating mode detection for a multi-modal system with multivariate time-series data" was invented by Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Robert Jeffrey Baseman (Brewster, N.Y.), Dhavalkumar C. Patel (White Plains, N.Y.) and Fateh A. Tipu (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for learning a predictive function that can automatically learn different operating modes for a multi-modal system and predict the number of operating states for a multi-modal system and additionally the detailed struct...