ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,105, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Huttlin GmbH (Schopfheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for recognizing a fault state of a machine or of a process" was invented by Marc Michaelis (Lorrach, Germany), Christian Karl Paasche (Bad Sackingen, Germany) and Stefan Manz (Bissingen an der Teck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus (100) for recognizing a fault state of a machine (102) or of a process is disclosed. The apparatus (100) is configured to detect actual values of parameters of the process at the machine (102) for carrying out the process. The parameters include at least one controllable process para...