ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,841, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of learning neural network, recording medium, and remaining life prediction system" was invented by Masanao Natsumeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of learning a neural network that predicts a remaining life of a target device that is a maintenance target. The neural network includes: (i) a first model for predicting a remaining life at an arbitrary time of maintenance cycle data, as a value based on an arbitrary reference value; and (ii) a second model for predicting a remaining life at a final time of the maintenance cycle data, as a val...