US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Dec. 16 for "Method and system for anonymization and negotiation for predictive maintenance" (German, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,813, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for anonymization and negotiation for predictive maintenance" was invented by Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany), Marie Christin Platenius-Mohr (Hirschberg an der BergstraBe, Germany) and Anders Trosten (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for anonymization and negotiation for predictive maintenance, the method comprising: aggregating, by an aggregation service module, runtime data and/or context data using an aggregation policy to generate aggregated data; anonymizing, by an anonymization module, the aggregated data u...