ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,932, issued on April 1, was assigned to BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC. (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for assessing an operating condition of an asset" was invented by David Lawrence Rogers (Birmingham, Mich.), James Eric Syphard (Bel Air, Md.), Sean Patrick McKenna (Melrose, Mass.), Douglas Paul Hamrick (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Jonathan Robert Lee Mulholland (Catonsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary mobile apparatus for assessing an operating condition of an asset. The mobile device includes at least one sensor device for acquiring data related to one or more operational or environmental characteristics of an as...