ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,384, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Embedding-based fault resolution" was invented by Christoph Fritzsche (Speyer, Germany), Michael Philipp (Wiesloch, Germany) and Fabienne Spaethe (Ittlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include identification of a future fault period and a future fault amount associated with a component, determination of production characteristics of the component, generation of a multi-dimensional vector representing the future fault period, the future fault amount and the production characteristics, searching of a vector database of multi-dimension...