ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,857, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aveva Software LLC (Lake Forest, Calif.).
"Shift configurations for manufacturing execution systems" was invented by Jeffrey Kohen Barkehanai (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Raghavendran Gobalakrishnan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a system for executing schedules in a manufacturing execution system (MES). In some embodiments, the system is configured to enable multiple shift patterns to be entered for a single entity. In some embodiments, the system is configured to prioritize the shift patterns based on an execution time. In some embodiments, the system...