US Patent Issued to PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC on April 7 for "Data analytics for predictive maintenance" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,364, issued on April 7, was assigned to PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (San Francisco).

"Data analytics for predictive maintenance" was invented by Devon Yates (Boulder, Colo.), John-Peter Dolphin (San Francisco), Eric Schoenman (San Francisco), Louis William McFaul IV (Albany, Calif.), Maryam Variani (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Sabrin Mohamed (Alameda, Calif.), Aayushi Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shane Buck (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ana Maria Nungo (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, systems and methods described herein are directed to using smart meters to determine an operational status of an asse...