ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,622, issued on May 20, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"System and method for monitoring failure of assembly tooling for mass- individualized production line" was invented by Jiewu Leng (Guangzhou, China), Xiaofeng Zhu (Guangzhou, China), Caiyu Xu (Guangzhou, China), Hongye Su (Guangzhou, China) and Qiang Liu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring the failure of assembly tooling for a mass-individualized production line are provided. The system realizes real-time monitoring and prediction of the remaining service life of the assembly tooling in the ma...