ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,194, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Durr Systems AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for analysing quality deficiencies" was invented by Simon Alt (Ditzingen, Germany), Jan-Philipp Schuh (Lauffen a.N., Germany), Ralf Schurer (Marbach am Neckar, Germany), Markus Hummel (Urbach, Germany), Jens Berner (Moglingen, Germany), Jens Hacker (Markgroningen, Germany), Thomas Hezel (Asperg, Germany), Frank Herre (Oberriexingen, Germany), Michael Zabel (Winnenden, Germany), Dietmar Wieland (Waiblingen, Germany), Philipp Oetinger (Sachsenheim, Germany) and Robin Heim (Guglingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide ...