ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,880, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for predictive maintenance" was invented by Armen Aghasaryan (Massy, France), Kerim Palamutcuogullari (Reading, Great Britain), Rajesh Banerjee (Dallas) and Dimitre Davidov Kostadinov (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for predictive maintenance, the apparatus comprising means for: Collecting a primary data bundle, wherein the primary data bundle comprises a first set of measurement time-series, wherein the first set of measurement time-series represents first alarms relating to a physical module of ...