ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,810, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for monitoring in a distributed system" was invented by Andreas Heyl (Weil der Stadt, Germany) and Philipp Mundhenk (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a distributed system, in which a change in a composition of components of the system is provided in an ongoing operation of the system. The method includes: carrying out a component check in which an incompatibility of the components with one another is identified; carrying out an interface check in which an incompatibility of at least one interface b...