ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,537, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for predicting remaining useful life of bearings based on a gated recurrent neural network" was invented by Zhengguo Xu (Hangzhou, China), Zijun Que (Hangzhou, China), Guozhen Gao (Hangzhou, China), Peng Cheng (Hangzhou, China), Jiming Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Wenhai Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for predicting remaining useful life of bearings based on a gated recurrent neural network, comprising the following steps: S1. obtaining full life cycle vibration signals of bearings, extrac...