ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,571, issued on June 10, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for diagnosing equipment" was invented by Naveenkumar Ramaiah (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include recording operation of equipment to create an audio file, extracting features from the audio file, inputting the extracted features into a machine learning model, and determining with the machine learning model a score indicative of the operation of the equipment. A system may include an audio sensor to record audio of operation of equipment and generate an audio file, and one or more processors....