ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,706, issued on July 15, was assigned to Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH & Co. KG (Weilheim, Germany).

"Device and method for processing at least one work area with a processing tool" was invented by Robert Bucher (Raisting, Germany), Nick Jagiella (Munich), Frank Schroder (Munich) and Konrad Zurl (Schwarzenbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device having a machining tool for machining at least one working area of an object. An image-capturing device generates at least one image of the at least one working area and at least one sensor generates sensor data during machining of the at least one working area are ...