ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,990, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Predictive maintenance model design system" was invented by Robert Michael Leitch (Vancouver, Canada) and Yikan Wang (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system for generating predictive maintenance models is disclosed, including one or more processors, a memory including one or more digital storage devices, and a plurality of instructions stored in the memory. The instructions are executable by the one or more processors to receive a historical dataset relating to each system of a plurality of systems, the historical dataset incl...