ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,866, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and device for ascertaining control parameters in a computer-assisted manner for a favorable action of a technical system" was invented by Martin Bischoff (GroBhelfendor, Germany) and Michel Tokic (Tettnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for ascertaining control parameters in a computer-assisted manner for handling a technical system is provided. A starting state and the surroundings of the technical system are detected using at least one sensor, and a physical simulation model of the technical system is generated using same. On the ba...