ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,391, issued on Sept. 29.

"Method and system for processing input values" was invented by Heiko Zimmermann (Sulzbach, Germany), Gunter Fuhr (Berlin) and Antonie Fuhr (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method implemented in a control system of a machine for processing input values in an overall system with a working level and an evaluation level comprising inputting first input values to the working level and determining first output values; forming first situation data; inputting the first situation data to the evaluation level and determining first evaluations indicating whether the first situation dat...