ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,556, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Projecting safety-related monitoring for a multi-axis kinematic system with multiple movable segments" was invented by Dominik Budday (Erlangen, Germany) and Maximilian Walter (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for projecting safety-related monitoring for a multi-axis kinematic system with multiple movable segments. The method includes assigning multiple respective segment kinematic zones to in each case one or more segments of the multi-axis kinematic system, wherein the respective segment kinematic zones are formed by segment bounding volumes in...