ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,768, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method, device and positioning system for positioning a sensor" was invented by Arianna Bosco (Munich), Christoph Heinrich (Donauworth, Germany), Mohamed Khalil (Munich) and P. V. Sudev Nair (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, a device and a positioning system for positioning a sensor at an optimized position for optimized monitoring of a technical system. The method includes providing a physical simulation model of the technical system, wherein the physical simulation model includes a virtual sensor at a given position, simulating a perf...