ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,055, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"System and method for remote control of a measurement instrument" was invented by Fabian Guettge (Unterhaching, Germany) and Mirko Soellner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for remote control of a measurement instrument comprises a protected local network and a measurement instrument connected to the protected local network. The measurement instrument is configured to execute a local instant messaging software. The local instant messaging software forms a remote control interface for the measurement instrument."

The patent was filed on Au...