ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,128, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device" was invented by Michael Hegmann (Schwabach, Germany), Michael Leipold (Nuremberg, Germany) and Sven Ludwig Kellner (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device with a central database provided for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device. Data are stored in the central database as temporal data and can be read and supplemented by the application programs. Configuration rules, dependent on the life cycle ph...