ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,692, issued on March 25, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Method for estimating the remaining service life of subject equipment" was invented by Badr Mansouri (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Romain Breuneval (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Guy Clerc (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a Remaining Useful Life of a subject equipment, with a preliminary phase including the following steps: acquire test observations (step 10) and produce test time seri...