ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,824, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Workflow for efficient parameterization of a numerical control" was invented by Alexander Kubik (Erlangen, Germany), Uwe Ladra (Erlangen, Germany), Andreas Klotzek (Erlangen, Germany) and Preethy Krell (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing facility transmits a command to a numerical control to briefly actuate a spindle drive, receives from the numerical control a drive torque applied to the spindle drive and data about a resulting acceleration of the spindle and determines therefrom a moment of inertia of the spindle and the spindle drive. The compu...