US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, University of Connecticut on Aug. 5 for "Remaining useful life determination for power electronic devices" (Michigan, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,984, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and University of Connecticut (Storrs, Conn.).

"Remaining useful life determination for power electronic devices" was invented by Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, Mich.), Raymond P. Viviano (Hazel Park, Mich.), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Qian Yang (Vernon, Conn.) and Krishna Pattipati (Storrs, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to predicting anomalous operation of a device and an associated remaining useful life (RUL) estimation. In one embodiment, a ...