US Patent Issued to B&D INDUSTRIAL on July 1 for "Systems and methods for the reconfiguration of legacy machines used in manufacturing environments to generate real-time operational data for use in analytics processes" (New Jersey, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,702, issued on July 1, was assigned to B&D INDUSTRIAL INC. (Macon, Ga.).

"Systems and methods for the reconfiguration of legacy machines used in manufacturing environments to generate real-time operational data for use in analytics processes" was invented by Mark Burbine (Bloomfield, N.J.) and Stephen Figurski (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for generating reconfiguration instructions for reconfiguring at least one legacy machine in accordance with a reconfiguration event. The method includes employing at least one of a computer and a user to identify a manufacturing or assembly envi...