US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 10 for "Failure prediction system, failure prediction method, and failure prediction program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,433, issued on June 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Failure prediction system, failure prediction method, and failure prediction program" was invented by Masaaki Kuranuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obtainer obtains travel data of an electric vehicle. A predictor predicts a failure due to aging in a drive circuit of a motor which drives a driving wheel of the electric vehicle, based on the travel data of the electric vehicle. The travel data includes position data of the electric vehicle and data relating to power consumption of the electric vehicle. The pre...