ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,760, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to WORKAROUND GMBH (Munich).

"Method for monitoring a work system and system" was invented by Stefan Kostic (Munich), Sebastian Petruch (Munich) and Bozidar Jevic (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a work system including steps of receiving a plurality of scan data values acquired by a sensor of a sensor device and order indicators associated with the scan data values, determining pairwise similarities between the scan data values, determining a number of clusters for grouping the scan data values based on the determined pairwise similarities, grouping the scan data value...