ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,968, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Control and monitoring of a machine arrangement" was invented by Yevgen Kogan (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling and/or monitoring a machine arrangement having at least one machine, in particular at least one robot, with the aid of a processor arrangement having a plurality of processors each with at least one core. The method includes selecting, in particular temporarily selecting, a first available and at least one further available core on the proviso that these cores are implemented, in particular arranged, on differe...