ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,517, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).
"Apparatus for controlling and/or monitoring a technical installation" was invented by Martin Kerschensteiner (Berg, Germany) and Alexander Thekale (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for controlling and/or monitoring a technical installation for producing and/or processing metal, having an assistant program with at least one interface for connection to application programs, wherein the assistant program receives a request for an item of information relating to the installation from at least one requesting...