ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,758, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method and device for monitoring the state of a component" was invented by Leonid Kostrykin (Heidelberg, Germany), Claus Rohr (Schwetzingen, Germany) and Karl Rohr (Hambrucken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the state of a component, includes: creating a video showing a region of the component and assembling a specified number n of captured frames of the video by (a) parameterising the individual transformations by one vector per frame, which vector defines the relevant Euclidean transformation, and forming a matrix ...