ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,193, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine learning with segment-aligned multisensor trace data" was invented by Yu Ying YY Wang (Xi'an, China), Zhi Yong Jia (Xian, China), Jing Wu (Xian, China) and Rong Fu He (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-learning system receives from multiple sensors a set of trace-data time series. Each time series contains a chronological sequence of sensor measurements of one attribute of one instance of a manufacturing product or process. The system partitions each series into a set of contiguous segments and selects one received ...