ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,816, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for operating a numerically controlled production machine, and corresponding numerical control" was invented by Thomas Pitz (Rutesheim, Germany) and Ralf Spielmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a numerically controlled production machine includes defining a permissible value range determined by the design and construction of the production machine in which, in a normal operation during production of a workpiece, values representing a mechanical or electrical load described by acceleration and/or jolting of at least one c...