ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,945, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmuller SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).

"Method for controlling the operation of a production line and production line suitable therefor" was invented by Daniel Gropper (Boos, Germany) and Pascal Schilling (Leutkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to be able to achieve a control target (Z) selected by a user in the simplest possible way during operation of a production line (500), performance indicators (LKs) are calculated from performance parameters (LP) which are measurable or discernible or can be specified and can originate from several differe...