ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,410, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Product state quantification and remaining life prediction method, and apparatus and system" was invented by Chao Chun Li (Shanghai), Xiao Zhou Zhou (Beijing), Huan Lun Li (Jiangsu, China) and Ling Fu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product state quantification and remaining life prediction method, the method comprising: T1, acquiring design data and operating data of a product; T2, establishing a design model of the product on the basis of the design data, performing data fusion according to the design data and operating data to obtain a predicted performance c...