ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,167, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MAKUSAFE CORP. (West Des Moines, Iowa).
"Device, system and method for optimizing operation of production equipment" was invented by Mark Frederick (West Des Moines, Iowa), Gabriel Glynn (West Des Moines, Iowa) and Matt McMullen (West Des Moines, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more arrangements, a system and method for optimizing a set of production equipment (e.g., a production line) is presented. In some arrangements, a worker detection system is configured to track workers present at the production equipment and a control system is configured to adjust operation of the product...