ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,839, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for managing operation data of appliance for failure prediction" was invented by Jae-Hun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Myung-Sun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ayush Jain (Seoul, South Korea), Tae-Ho Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Hong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hye-Jung Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a managing server includes: receiving, from an electronic device, operation data of the electronic device; identifying, by using artificial intelligence (AI), a d...