ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,356, issued on April 7, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Method and system for localization of faults in an industrial manufacturing plant" was invented by Kalyani Bharat Zope (Pune, India), Kuldeep Singh (Pune, India), Sri Harsha Nistala (Pune, India), Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India) and Tanmaya Singhal (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing systems for fault detection and classification have the disadvantage that they have limited or no capability for fault localization and root cause identification, probably due to the challenges associated with modeling the nonlinear interactions ...