US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Nov. 4 for "Systems and method for constructing troubleshooting trees" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,952, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and method for constructing troubleshooting trees" was invented by Lasitha Vidyaratne (Fremont, Calif.), Xian Yeow Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aman Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Tsubasa Watanabe (Spring Lake, Mich.), Dipanjan Ghosh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ahmed Farahat (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chetan Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for constructing an equipment troubleshooting tree involve receiving an unstructured text source and using a parsing tool to segment it into sections that are associated with equipment components, un...