ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,956, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wistron Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Recommended method for replacing equipment and electronic device" was invented by Chun-Hsien Li (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Chiung Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a recommended method for replacing equipment and an electronic device. A plurality of reference electricity consumptions of an equipment are estimated by using an electricity consumption prediction model based on equipment operation information of the equipment in a plurality of unit periods. A plurality of actual electricity consumptions of the equi...