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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,753, issued on May 13, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Method for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s)" was invented by Alexander Walzenbach (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Marco Klaus Jaeger (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Jan Buck (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for monitoring and/or controlling a chemical plant (12) with multiple assets via a distributed computing system (10) with more than two deployment layers (14, 16, 30, 32, 34), wherein the deployment layers (14, 16, 30, 32, 34) comprise at least two of a first processing layer (14), a second processing...