ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,522, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MULTIPOND Wagetechnik GmbH (Waldkraiburg, Germany).

"Signal processing method for multihead scales" was invented by Felix Profe (Winhoring, Germany) and Wolfram C. Zeck (Muhldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a signal processing method for weight signals (W) of scales, in particular combination scales (K).Signal processing is performed using preprocessed discrete values (W(i)) of the weight signal (W), which are supplied to at least one artificial neural network. With the help of this at least one artificial neural network, an estimated value (SW) for ...