ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,258, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oregon State University (Corvallis, Ore.).
"Operational forecasting system based on anomalous behaviors in complex systems" was invented by James R. Watson (Corvallis, Ore.), Andrew John Woodill (Corvallis, Ore.) and Maria Kavanaugh (Corvallis, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A general-purpose approach to solving the core problems of detecting and predicting the actions of invisible actors, and the consequential challenges of intervention and prevention. The operational forecasting system is applied to data gathered from complex systems. The operational forecasting system uses novel early-w...