ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,800, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to EPLAN GMBH & Co. KG (Monheim Am Rhein, Germany).
"Method and device for automatic analysis of a circuit diagram" was invented by Thiemo Gruber (Ratingen, Germany), Vincent Layes (Gelsenkirchen, Germany), Alexander Peters (Langenfeld, Germany) and Marcus Reitz (Hofheim/Taunus, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for automatic analysis of a circuit diagram, comprising: applying one or more filters to a circuit diagram for recognizing a circuit symbol defined by the respective filter in the circuit diagram; applying one or more detectors to the circuit diagram ...