US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Sept. 23 for "Cause estimation apparatus and cause estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,839, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cause estimation apparatus and cause estimation method" was invented by Shunsaku Matsumoto (Tokyo), Kuniaki Aoyama (Hyogo, Japan), Yasuyuki Ogawa (Tokyo), Takashi Sonoda (Tokyo) and Daisuke Kudo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cause estimation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a measurement value of a target apparatus; a likelihood calculation unit that calculates, in a case where it is assumed that events occur due to a common cause, a likelihood of an occurrence of each of the events based on the measurement value; a table ...