US Patent Issued to Essilor International on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for load balancing manufacturing execution among optical laboratories" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,731, issued on May 13, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method and apparatus for load balancing manufacturing execution among optical laboratories" was invented by Michael A. Filipovich (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for optical manufacturing laboratories (OMLs) obtaining a plurality of performance indictors (PIs). The PIs are published or otherwise distributed among one or more participants (e.g., one or more ECPs and/or an administrative team of the OMLs). Logic blocks are generated for respective manufacturing orders to express priorities of the require...