ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,987, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Commissioning measuring devices" was invented by Oliver Dolle (Erlangen, Germany), Thomas Schutz (Furth, Germany) and Arvid Amthor (Grabfeld OT Nordheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the disclosure include methods for testing measuring devices n for resources of an energy system assigned to a common measuring device. The method may include: acquiring a measurement signal Pn(t) by way of each of the measuring devices n; acquiring a sum signal PPCC(t) by way of the common measuring device; providing an objective function Z, which defines a diff...