US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 22 for "Predictive device maintenance" (Iowa, New York, California, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,464, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predictive device maintenance" was invented by Adam Lee Griffin (Dubuque, Iowa), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Alzamora (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Patricia Wynne Mchann (Hernando, Miss.), Christopher Denis Hardt (Hyde Park, N.Y.) and David Beltran (Beacon, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product for predictive device maintenance, and system for a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. One embodiment may comprise generating a risk score as a weighted measure of input data ...