ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,857, issued on March 31, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Maintenance history visualizer to facilitate solving intermittent problems" was invented by Mauro Barbieri (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Johannes Henricus Maria Korst (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk (Vught, Netherlands), Marc Andre Peters (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Qi Gao (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium (107, 127) stores instructions readable and executable by at least one electronic processor (101, 113) operatively connected with a display (105) and at le...