ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,193, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for operating a machine with a tool" was invented by Andre Butzerin (Buhrs, Austria), Daniel Schall (Hollabrunn, Austria) and Stefan Trabesinger (Raaba-Grambach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for operating a machine with a tool, wherein the method includes capturing at least one operating data point for the machine and/or the tool, calculating at least one estimate value from the at least one operating data point based on an ML model, determining an anomaly in the form of a discrete-time anomaly value based on the at least o...