ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,177, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Durr Systems AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Analysis method and devices for same" was invented by Andreas Gienger (Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany), Oliver Sawodny (Stuttgart, Germany), Simon Alt (Ditzingen, Germany), Martin Weickgenannt (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Markus Hummel (Urbach, Germany), Tobias Schlotterer (Hechingen, Germany), Jens Berner (Moglingen, Germany) and Hauke Bensch (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a method for anomaly and/or fault recognition in an industrial-method plant, for example a painting plant, wherein anomalies and/or fa...