ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,688, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"System and method for predicting failure of components using temporal scoping of sensor data" was invented by Younghun Kim (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Guruprasad Srinivasan (Bangalore, India) and Tarun Kumar (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises receiving first historical data of a first time period and failure data, identifying at least some sensor data that was or potentially was generated during a first failure, removing the at least some sensor data to create filtered historical data, training a classification model us...