Patent ID: 8751096

Claim:
A real-time prognostics and health management system for one or more electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices, the prognostics and health management system comprising: a tangible and non-transitory memory preloaded with prognostics and health management signature data, the prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of one or more devices comprising one or more of the following: electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices; one or more sensors that are adapted to monitor one or more parameters associated with the one or more devices; and a logic device configured to perform the following operatios: calculating an address in the tangible and non-transitory memory of one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses, the respective status describing the present operating state of the one or more devices, and accessing the tangible and non-transitory memory using the calculated address in real time to retrieve the prognostics and health management status of the one or more devices from among the plurality of other potential prognostics and health management statuses, wherein one or more parameter values associated with the one or more devices are utilized to calculate one or more portions of the address of the one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses describing the present operating state of the one or more devices, preloaded in the tangible and non-transitory memory.