ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,226, issued on May 19, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Model-based visual representation of apparatus operational status" was invented by Carlton M. Rutter (Glendale, Calif.), Kristin Athans (Coto de Caza, Calif.), Cynthia A. Marinaro (Glendale, Calif.) and Pedro L. Lima (Covina, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive operational data including multiple timestamps each corresponding to an operating state of an apparatus, receive, from a system user, a query i...