US Patent Issued to BASF on May 13 for "Manufacturing system for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s)" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,743, issued on May 13, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Manufacturing system for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s)" was invented by Jan De Caigny (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Bart Van Loon (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sebastian Gau (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Daniel Engel (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12) including at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is associated with a secure network (20) and communicatively coupled to an inte...