ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,074, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Thermal marking for object tracking" was invented by Friedrich Dasberg (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Lutz Roese-Koerner (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Nils Freitag (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Martin Alsfasser (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Maurice Riediger (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Elisabeth Muhlhausen (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of recording tracking information on an object, for tracking a progress of the object through a manufacturing process. The method includes obtaining one or more te...