ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,831, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INFICON AG (Balzers, Liechtenstein).

"Method for operating a group of pressure sensors" was invented by Bernhard Andreaus (Rapperswil, Switzerland), Rolf Enderes (Malans, Switzerland), Christian Berg (Stafa, Switzerland) and Martin Wuest (Malans, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for operating a group 1 of pressure sensors which are arranged in such a manner that they can measure the pressure in a common measurement volume 2, wherein the group of pressure sensors comprises at least a first pressure sensor 1' with a first pressure measurement range and a second pressure sensor 1"...