US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Aug. 12 for "Controlling a manufacturing process using causal models" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,320, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Controlling a manufacturing process using causal models" was invented by Brian E. Brooks (St. Paul, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Peter O. Olson (Andover, Minn.), Tyler W. Olson (Woodbury, Minn.), Himanshu Nayar (St. Paul, Minn.), Frederick J. Arsenault (Stillwater, Minn.) and Nicholas A. Johnson (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing a manufacturing process. In one aspect, the method comprises repeatedly performi...