ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,742, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Condition evaluation device, condition evaluation method and computer readable medium" was invented by Tomoharu Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dependence relation database (332) stores dependence relation information (33) wherein a dependence relation between each constituting apparatus among a plurality of constituting apparatuses, and an importance degree to represent intensity of the dependence relation are set, with a vehicle formation (10) being a vertex. An apparatus evaluation unit (302) calculates a soundness estimation value to repr...