ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,205, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tractian Technologies Inc (Atlanta).

"Sample retrieval and user interface generator" was invented by Canyon Grey Dell'Omo (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance and monitoring infrastructure can use a plurality of sensors or monitors in an industrial plant to obtain machine samples from a large collection of assets (industrial machines). An artificial-intelligence (AI) assistant can conversationally interact with a technician to answer questions regarding maintenance status of the assets in the plant. The technician can conversationally request various machine samples and/or asso...