ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,864, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ANDRITZ INC. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Risk-based manufacturing plant control" was invented by Daniel Schuck (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Matheus Sessim Gomes (Vitoria-ES, Brazil).
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, that can adjust operations of a manufacturing plant based on an assessment of risk to the plant's operations posed by the conditions and/or operations of the different devices in the manufacturing plant. Methods may include obtaining, using a set of sensors, a set of current operational chara...