ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,833, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ANDRITZ INC. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Material processing optimization" was invented by Neeraj Nagpal (Decatur, Ga.) and Peter Antensteiner (Lewisburg, Pa.).
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 material processing. In one aspect, a method includes collecting, from a set of sensors, a set of current manufacturing conditions. Based on the set of current manufacturing conditions collected from the sensors, a set of current qualities of a material currently being processed by manufacturing equipm...