US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 4 for "Method for tracking a component in a production line comprising a plurality of processing systems, and computing unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,255, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for tracking a component in a production line comprising a plurality of processing systems, and computing unit" was invented by Gerhard Ettengruber (Simbach, Germany), Bernhard Glueck (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany) and Stefan Werner (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a component in a production line having a plurality of processing systems includes processing and/or testing, by each of the processing systems, the component, providing a processing signal characterizing the processing and/or testing for a higher-le...