US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Estimating remaining useful life based on operation and degradation characteristics" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,980, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Estimating remaining useful life based on operation and degradation characteristics" was invented by Shengrong Tang (Dublin, Ohio), Jonathan Tristan O'Gorman (Whitegate, Ireland) and Amaresh Rajasekharan (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining asset data; determining an asset class associated with the asset data; initializing a new neural network model, wherein the new neural network model is initialized based on a...