ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,558, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AM-Flow Holding B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Manufacturing facility and manufacturing method" was invented by Gideon Daniel Maij (Amsterdam), Nick De Zwart-Janssen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jonathan Van Der Spek (Amsterdam), Stefan Rink (Sterksel, Netherlands), Yueting Liu (Amsterdam) and Reinder Alexander Lambertus Koelstra (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing facility and a manufacturing method are provided herein to manufacture a product according to a specification in a digital manufacturing order. Manufacturing system units to be used are automatically scheduled (S2) and control...