ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,556, issued on April 14, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for determining a valid state of measurement systems" was invented by Bernd Beterke (Aspach, Germany), Piotr Skwierawski (Frankenthal, Germany), Petra Funke (Aidlingen, Germany) and Roland Friedrich (Winnenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining whether a measurement system is used in a valid state, includes: automatically reading out a plurality of information items; automatically obtaining information on current operating environmental conditions; automatically reading reference information items identifyi...