ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,355, issued on April 7, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Industrial internet of things, methods and mediums for early warning of descending function fault of equipment" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yaqiang Quan (Chengdu, China), Yuefei Wu (Chengdu, China), Yuhao Chen (Chengdu, China) and Junyan Zhou (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things for early warning of descending function fault of equipment, comprising a management platform, wherein the management platform is configured to perform following operati...