ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,490, issued on March 31, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Capabilities for error categorization, reporting and introspection of a technical apparatus" was invented by Guglielmo Gemignani (Munich), Markus Grimm (Munich) and Moritz Tenorth (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus state data structure for controlling a technical apparatus includes at least one capability data field and at least one associated data field. Each capability data field indicates a respective functionality of the technical apparatus. Each associated data field is associated with a respective capability data field. The at least ...