ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,165, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Predictive system maintenance model based on machine learning" was invented by Jing Guo (Xi'an, China), Zhou Yang (Xi'an, China), Yuanyang Wang (Xi'an, China) and Jing-tao Li (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a predictive system maintenance module is created based on machine learning. The predictive system maintenance module achieves an improvement in predicting condition-based maintenance decision-making through a cloud-based approach, using a wide variety of information. Factors that influence downtime loss are identified and a...