ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,175, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method, system and computer program for providing audit records that relate to technical equipment" was invented by Laura Bender (Lampertheim, Germany), Heike Brueser (Lampertheim, Germany), Dominik Odenbach (Lampertheim, Germany) and Martin Stahljans (Lampertheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Human operators (201A) perform activities within a facility in interactions with technical equipment (301A, 301B, 301C). A series (700) of images (701, 702) visualizes activities that are performed by either the same human operator (201A) or...