ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,137, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VOLUME GRAPHICS GMBH (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for monitoring the status of a device for investigating objects" was invented by Sven Gondrom-Linke (Heidelberg, Germany), Matthias Flessner (Heidelberg, Germany), Thomas Gunther (Heidelberg, Germany), Christoph Poliwoda (Heidelberg, Germany), Soren Schuller (Heidelberg, Germany), Christof Reinhart (Heidelberg, Germany) and Daniela Handl (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a computer-implemented method for monitoring the status of a device for investigating objects, wherein the investigation of...