ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,610, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Maintenance system and method of analyzing and/or creating health information for a hardware system" was invented by Christian Soldner (Munich), Philipp Joppich (Munich) and Daniel Markert (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance system for maintaining a hardware system is described. The maintenance system includes an acquisition circuit and an analysis circuit. The acquisition circuit can be configured to acquire a plurality of operational parameters of the hardware system, the plurality of operational parameters being relevant to a health sta...