ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,147, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BUERKERT WERKE Gmbh & Co. KG (Ingelfingen, Germany).

"Method of monitoring a state of a component and/or a process value, and process valve" was invented by Andreas Ungerer (Ingelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a state of a component and/or a process value including detecting and comparing at least one value characteristic of the state to be monitored with a defined value, and/or a process value, wherein, for each deviation of the detected value from the defined value, a mean value of the deviation or of the detected characteristic value is calculated and...