ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,590, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for repairing workpiece involves using requirement information to check whether simulated physical behavior fulfills requirement" was invented by Christoph Heinrich (Donauworth, Germany), Christoph Ernst Ludwig (Munich), Roland Rosen (Seefeld, Germany), Christoph Wincheringer (Munich), Nils Weinert (Munich) and Jan Fischer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to repair a workpiece, a requirement specification about a requirement to be met by the workpiece and a numerical simulation model for simulating a physical behavior of the workpiece are imported. Furt...