ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,451, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method for the computer-aided execution of a technical process in processing units, computing environment, and storage medium" was invented by Sonja Steffens (Evessen, Germany), Michael Hofer (Uitikon, Switzerland), Matthias Bolz (Braunschweig, Germany) and Stefan Gerken (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executes a technical process by executing application programs redundantly in a redundancy group containing a plurality N of computing entities and thereby calculate a plurality N of redundant results. A comparison of the messages co...