US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Feb. 17 for "Component service life prediction system and maintenance assistance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,255, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Component service life prediction system and maintenance assistance system" was invented by Takashi Okumura (Toride, Japan), Hiroyuki Konno (Tokyo), Satoshi Inose (Tsukuba, Japan), Shigeyuki Sakurai (Tsukuba, Japan), Shinichi Oku (Ushiku, Japan) and Tomohiro Yoneda (Mito, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component life prediction system 1 includes a server device 10 configured to be able to communicate with a work machine 2, and capable of predicting the life of a component of the work machine 2. The server device 10 acquires operation inf...