ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,500, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Wagner Group GmbH (Germany).

"Verification method for an oxygen reduction system" was invented by Stefan Beckers (Ilsede, Germany) and Andreas Henkel (Harsum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying system functions of an oxygen reduction system, said functions being used during operation. The oxygen reduction system reduces or maintains an oxygen concentration level in a protection region by supplying inert gas and to monitor or increase the oxygen concentration level, which has been previously reduced in the protection region or in a monitoring region. The method compris...