ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,325, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SIEMANS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE NV (Leuven, Belgium).
"Sensitivity analysis-based dependability trade-off analysis" was invented by Zhensheng Guo (Forstern, Germany), Christof Kaukewitsch (Munich) and Marc Zeller (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensitivity analysis of failure events associated with components of a technical system is provided. It is possible to determine, for a plurality of components of a technical system configured in accordance with at least one initial design, importance values which are indicative of a dependency of at least one non-functional specification of a plurali...