ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,166, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Vehicle health management using a counterfactual machine learning model" was invented by Alexander Waagen (San Jose, Calif.) 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 for a set of metrics for a part and historical maintenance events for the part. The computer system trains a machine learning model using the training dataset. The computer syst...