US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 7 for "Artificial intelligence-based anomaly detection and prediction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,671, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Artificial intelligence-based anomaly detection and prediction" was invented by Nicolas Thewes (Saarbrucken, Germany) and Georg Schneider (Urbar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for rendering an explanation output for users regarding an anomaly predicted by an anomaly detection module on the basis of high frequency sensor data or values derived therefrom in an industrial production process, wherein the anomaly detection module predicts the anomalies when the anomaly detection module classifies sensor data or ranges of sensor data ...