ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,751, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Modularized model predictive control for industrial plants" was invented by Jan Christoph Schlake (Darmstadt, Germany), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany) and Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a dynamic model of an industrial plant having: a plurality of physical processes that are dependent such that an outcome of at least one first process is fed into at least one second process; a plurality of low-level controllers, each controller acting upon at least one physical process such that at least one process...