ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,434, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and method for adjusting fail-safe monitoring in an industrial automation plant" was invented by Martin Arzich (Nuremberg, Germany) and Rene Graf (Zirndorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety system of a mobile component of an industrial automation plant and method for adjusting failsafe monitoring in the industrial automation plant, wherein a sensor of a mobile component of the industrial automation plant is used to determine a position and orientation of the mobile component relative to a further component of the industrial automation plant in a fails...