ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,469, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Component state estimation apparatus, component state estimation method, and storage medium" was invented by Asako Fujii (Tokyo), Takuroh Kashima (Tokyo), Yuki Chiba (Tokyo) and Norihito Oi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component state estimation apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110) and an estimation unit (120). The acquisition unit (110) acquires state information and operating prediction data. The state information indicates a state of a component included in a product. The operating prediction data acquire operating prediction data indicating a pred...