ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,256, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Methods for determining a limit of a tolerance interval, method for evaluating a production process and corresponding calculation device" was invented by Florian Knicker (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Christian Reuss (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Christian Weckbacher (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Patric Ralph Stracke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for determining a limit, comprising: providing a plurality of sample values, wherein the sample values define a sample value distribution, the sample values being values of a technic...