ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,298, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for failure detection tools in large scale maintenance operations" was invented by Michael P. Simeone (Scottsdale, Ariz.), David Little (Mesa, Ariz.), George Boben (Fort Worth, Texas), Shashank Kapoor (New Delhi), Deepan Nedumaran (Tempe, Ariz.) and Aravind Sundaresan (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for failure detection tools is disclosed. The system may include at least one user device, an application server, and a failure detection system, each of which may be in commu...