ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,742, issued on May 13, was assigned to FACTORYPAL GMBH (Berlin).

"Method and device using alternative calculation methods for determining an optimized process configuration for manufacturing or processing products" was invented by Bastian Tiemo Kronenbitter (Bruchsal, Germany), Edith Chorev Metger (Berlin) and David Breyel (Bad Schoenborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically determining an optimized process configuration of a process for manufacturing or processing products that can be executed using a technical system and can be configured using a number of different process configuration parameters com...