ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,366, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Failure prediction system, failure prediction method, and failure prediction program" was invented by Masaaki Kuranuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquirer acquires driving data of an electrically-powered moving body. A predictor predicts, based on the driving data of the electrically-powered moving body, an aging failure of an electromechanical transducer including a motor driving a driving wheel of the electrically-powered moving body and a drive circuit driving the motor. The driving data include an input ...