US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Aug. 5 for "Computerized optimization of an engineered modular plant topology" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,715, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Computerized optimization of an engineered modular plant topology" was invented by Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany), Katharina Stark (Weinheim, Germany) and Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes obtaining an amount of a resource and/or capability of a process module, and dividing this amount by the maximum amount of the respective resource and/or capability to obtain a theoretical utilization of the resource and/or capability as the theoretical utilization of the process module. A pool of avail...