ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,824, issued on Aug. 19.

"Monitoring method for an application plant and corresponding application plant" was invented by Tobias Winter (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Paul Thoma (Freiberg am Neckar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a monitoring method for an application plant for applying an application agent for a painting plant for painting motor vehicle body components. The following are included: having the following steps: Determination of first raw sensor data representing an operating variable of the application plant, acquisition of first control signals for controlling the application plan...