ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,178, issued on April 15, was assigned to ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG (Hard, Austria).

"Method for operating a device, computer program product and device for producing a product" was invented by Christoph Nigl (Wolfurt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a device to produce a product includes capturing at least one quality data record that includes measured values of one or more quality parameters that each correspond to one property of the product. The method captures at least one associated machine data record including actual values of several adjustable machine parameters of the device, chrono...