ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,694, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Method for the safe operation of a machine" was invented by Christoph Hansen (Hamburg, Germany), Andre Buhler (Freiamt, Germany), Thomas Neumann (Schallstadt, Germany) and Jonas Winter (Nusse, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the safe operation of a machine, which has a movable machine part comprising a hazardous section, comprises: the movable machine part moving according to a predefined sequence program; and an environment of the hazardous section being monitored, wherein, in the event of an engagement of an object into a defined protective...