ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,425, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Vehicle health management using a counterfactual machine learning model to optimize maintenance parameters" was invented by Alexander Waagen (San Jose, Calif.), Aruna Jammalamadaka (Camarillo, Calif.), Alice A. Murphy (Mesa, Ariz.), Derek S. Fok (Mesa, Ariz.), Douglas Peter Knapp (Ridley Park, Pa.) and Tsai-Ching Lu (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a platform. A computer system generates a training dataset comprising historical metric values from historical sensor information f...