ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,589, issued on July 29, was assigned to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH (Germany).

"Remote control of a plant for producing and/or treating a rolled product made of metal" was invented by Gunther Winter (Neunkirchen/Brand, Germany) and Hans-Juergen Zeiher (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensors detect states of units of a plant for producing and/or treating a rolled product made of metal and transmit them to an automation system. The state signals (Z) are, in part, dimensional signals. The automation system determines, by taking into account the state signals (Z), control signal signals (S) for actuators associa...