ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,807, issued on April 14, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Process and system for characterizing a fixture component of a test fixture" was invented by Mathias Hellwig (Emmering, Germany) and Benedikt Lippert (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a process for characterizing a fixture component of a test fixture. The fixture component comprises a test instrument interface and a device under test, DUT, interface. The process comprises connecting a test instrument to the test instrument interface; sequentially establishing a plurality of characterization setups for the fixture component; and charac...