ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,407, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for automatically assisting with an inspection and/or condition monitoring of objects" was invented by Axel Platz (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method in which a processor (1) accesses a database which contains a set of data records containing a focus data record, (2) selects first data records from the set of data records, the first context information of which does not correspond to the first context information of the focus data record, and the second context information of which corresponds to the second context information of the focus data...