A method for providing a virtual age estimation for predicting the remaining lifetime of a device of a given type, comprises the steps of monitoring a predetermined number of significant parameters of respective ones of a training set of devices of the given type, the parameters contributing respective...http://www.google.com/patents/US7031950?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7031950 - Method and apparatus for providing a virtual age estimation for remaining lifetime prediction of a system using neural networks
