ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,879, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany).

"Automated test plan validation for object measurement by a coordinate measuring machine" was invented by Nils Eckardt (Pluderhausen, Germany) and Stephan Rieger (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device includes memory that stores a test plan for a coordinate measuring machine to perform an object measurement. The test plan includes at least one test feature for a plurality of reference elements of the object. The computer device includes at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored ...