ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,229, issued on May 12, was assigned to John Snow Labs Inc. (Lewes, Del.).

"Determining repair status information to provide in response to queries with associated source tracking and confidence data" was invented by Katherine G. Weber (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), David A. Cecchini (San Paulo, Brazil), Veysel Kocaman (Echt, Netherlands) and David Talby (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for performing automated operations related to identifying and using repair and maintenance status information for devices and/or other items or entities, such as summarizing and encoding incoming data, identifyi...