ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,196, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Seco Tools AB (Fagersta, Sweden).

"Method, electronic device and computer program product for reducing a carbon dioxide footprint associated with a production process" was invented by Daniel Johansson (Fagersta, Sweden), Soren Hagglund (Fagersta, Sweden) and Gerrit Kremer (Fagersta, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method, an electronic device and a computer program product for reducing a carbon dioxide footprint associated with a production process. The carbon dioxide footprint has at least an amount of carbon dioxide emitted during the production process. The me...