ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,809, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Japan Steel Works Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Modular, general purpose, automated, anomalous data synthesizers for rotary plants" was invented by Yip Fun Yeung (Cambridge, Mass.), Ali Alshehri (Cambridge, Mass.), Lois Wampler (Cambridge, Mass.), Takayuki Hirano (Kashiwa, Japan), Mikio Furokawa (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) and Kamal Youcef-Toumi (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anomalous scenario synthesizer apparatus includes a rotatable shaft configured to be rotationally driven about a rotation axis, a data acquisition syste...