ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,689, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PEPPER MOTION GMBH (Denkendorf, Germany).

"Method for assigning electrical signals in a network" was invented by Andreas Hager (Aichach, Germany), Matthias Kerler (Munich), Philipp Steininger (Germering, Germany) and Jennifer Schlindwein (Waldbuttelbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in which electrical signals are assigned in a network includes generating first signals from data sources; generating second signals from the data sources; assigning the second signals by comparing with first signals and/or with differences of the second signals in data traces for the second signal...