US Patent Issued to Industrial Technology Research Institute on March 18 for "Production line operation forecast method and production line operation forecast system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,426, issued on March 18, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Production line operation forecast method and production line operation forecast system" was invented by Tsan-Cheng Su (Tainan, Taiwan), Hao-Jhe Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung-Wei Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production line operation forecast method and a production line operation forecast system are provided. The production line operation forecast method includes the following steps: obtaining an online production line work-in-process map at a time point, generating candidate simulated dispatc...