US Patent Issued to Ion Beam Applications on Aug. 26 for "Method for generating an FTA fault tree from an FMEA table of a technical system or vice versa" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,765, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ion Beam Applications (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium).

"Method for generating an FTA fault tree from an FMEA table of a technical system or vice versa" was invented by David Menichelli (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium) and Andreas Lammerzahl (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based method for generating one or more FTA fault trees from an FMEA table of a technical system or vice versa. The method includes defining a common data set for both the FMEA table and the one or more FTA fault tree(s) of the technical system, obtaining data of the common data set for the technica...