DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claims 1-34 and 36 are pending.
Claim 35 is cancelled.
Continued Prosecution Application
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on June 8, 2026 has been entered.
Claim Objections
Claims 1-34 and 36 are objected to because of the following informalities: in the claims some terms use “the” same terms use ‘said”, it looks inconsistence. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 1 recites the limitation "said initial machine learning" in line 3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 18 recites the limitation " said initial machine learning" in 27. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 36 recites the limitation "said initial machine learning" in line 7. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 2 recites the limitation "the rejected results" in line 2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 6 recites the limitation "the rejected results" in line 3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 19 recites the limitation "the rejected results" in line 3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 23 recites the limitation "the rejected results" in line 3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-34 and 36 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
It is noted that any citations to specific, pages, columns, lines, or figures in the prior art references and any interpretation of the reference should not be considered to be limiting in any way. A reference is relevant for all it contains and may be relied upon for all that it would have reasonably suggested to one having ordinary skill in the art. See MPEP 2123.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and listed on the attached PTO Form 892 but not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Kamiya et al USPGPUB 2017/0293862 a machine learning device which learns fault prediction of one of a main shaft of a machine tool and a motor driving the main shaft, including a state observation unit observing a state variable including at least one of data output from a motor controller controlling the motor, data output from a detector detecting a state of the motor, and data output from a measuring device measuring a state of the one of the main shaft and the motor; a determination data obtaining unit obtaining determination data upon determining one of whether a fault has occurred in the one of the main shaft and the motor and a degree of fault; and a learning unit learning the fault prediction of the one of the main shaft and the motor in accordance with a data set generated based on a combination of the state variable and the determination data.
Cella et al. USPGPUB 2018/0284741 teaches a system, method and apparatus for data collection in an industrial production environment are described. The system may include, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to input received from at least one of a plurality of input sensors which includes a detection package, each of the plurality of input sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of components of an industrial production process, a data analysis circuit structured to analyze a subset of the plurality of detection values to determine a sensor performance value of at least one of the plurality of input sensors, and an analysis response circuit structured to adjust at least one of a sensor scaling value or a sensor sampling frequency value, in response to the sensor performance value..
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