ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,710, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AUGURY SYSTEMS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Sensor-agnostic mechanical machine fault identification" was invented by Ori Negri (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Bethel (New York), Daniel Barsky (Haifa, Israel), Gal Ben-Haim (Haifa, Israel), Gal Shaul (Haifa, Israel) and Saar Yoskovitz (Haworth, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a fault of at least one mechanical machine, including causing a first plurality of sensors coupled to a corresponding first plurality of mechanical machines to acquire a first plurality of sets of signals emanating from the first plurality of mechanical m...