ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,804, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Buhler AG (Uzwil, Switzerland).

"Modular control system and method for dynamically adaptive process control of a plant in a machine-to-machine network" was invented by Sascha Rauchholz (Cologne, Germany) and Mario Arlitt (Windeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is system and method for modular control system providing a dynamically adaptive process control of a process line of a plant in a Machine-to-Machine network. The process line of the plant comprises a plurality of distributed machine control system with one or more elements interlocked to one or more operational unit o...