ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,698, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method, structure, apparatus, computer program and computer-readable storage medium for analyzing a mechatronic system" was invented by Dominik Brehl (Munich), Marc Brummer (Poing, Germany) and Maximilian Thiele (Poecking, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for analyzing a mechatronic system which has one or more mechatronic components, structure data is provided. The structure data is representative of a predefined structure for a network. The structure has a plurality of layers and a respective layer is representative in each case of a ...