ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,252, issued on March 25, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Safety device and safety method for monitoring a machine" was invented by Christoph Hofmann (Waldkirch, Germany), Thomas Neumann (Waldkirch, Germany) and Sanketh Ramachandra (Waldkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety device is provided for monitoring at least one machine that has at least one sensor for generating sensor data on the machine and a processing unit for the sensor data that is connected at least indirectly to the sensor and to the machine and that is configured as a runtime environment having at least one computing node and to allow...