ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,183, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Identifying errors in a computer network by comparing an actual configuration with a target configuration" was invented by Karl Budweiser (Munich), Christoph Gollob (Karlsfeld, Germany), Daniel Matlok (Stein, Germany), Andreas Schramm (Neufahrn, Germany) and Andreas Tscherner (Bruckberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for identifying errors in a computer network. The network comprises at least one coupling element, which interconnects at least two network subscribers. The coupling element c...