ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,541, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Robust predictive maintenance method for machinery using measured vibration data and estimated sound data" was invented by Akira Inoue (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations described herein, there are systems and methods for performing predictive maintenance which can include collecting vibration data related to an operation of a first machine during a first time period, computing sound data related to the operation of the first machine during the first time period based on the collected vibration data, and predicting, based ...