ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,376, issued on May 13, was assigned to HEATHKIT COMPANY INC. (Ottsville, Pa.).

"Accurate and model-based measurement and management systems and methods" was invented by Andrew S. Cromarty (Palo Alto, Calif.), Donald J. Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jasen Levoy (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and William Charles Calhoun (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for measurement and management provide complex measurements cost-effectively at very high accuracy. These methods and systems in some cases achieve measurement accuracy exceeding the accuracy of the reference standards they rely on, and eliminate expensive and d...