ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,471, issued on July 14, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for controlling a process" was invented by Andreas Kluwe (Radebeul, Germany), Stefan Jank (Dresden, Germany) and Christian Knoll (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of monitoring a process includes obtaining a sample data distribution. The sample data represents one or more parameters of a process. The sample data is collected by one or a plurality of sampling units. The method further includes calculating a control limit based on an evaluation of at least one difference of percentile...