ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,216, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Rating of the relevance of test cases for technical systems" was invented by Peter Bakucz (Klosterlechfeld, Germany) and Gyorgy Csaba (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rating the relevance of a test case for assessing the behavior of a technical system, whose dynamics are described by a scalar dynamics function in the current state of the system, in the control currently impressed upon the system, as well as in the time. In the method: an optimized control problem is set up, in which the scalar dynamics function and/or an i...