ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,332, issued on April 7, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Cloud-based machine health monitoring" was invented by Lewis Malaver (Weston, Mass.) and David Redmond (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting, isolating, and diagnosing machine faults are discussed. An exemplary system includes a network of sensor nodes deployed at machines or machine components to sense information of machine characteristics, and to generate physical or statistical features using the sensed machine characteristics. A cloud-computing device, communicatively coupled to the sens...