ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,931, issued on July 29, was assigned to Instrumental Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units" was invented by Samuel Bruce Weiss (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anna-Katrina Shedletsky (Mountain View, Calif.), Simon Kozlov (Burlingame, Calif.), Tilmann Bruckhaus (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shilpi Kumar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Isaac Sukin (San Francisco), Ian Theilacker (Los Altos, Calif.) and Brendan Green (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an orig...