ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,300, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Method for operating a technical plant and technical plant" was invented by Josef Schmidt (Philippsburg-Huttenheim, Germany), Frank Schonung (Graben-Neudorf, Germany), Patrick Weis (Wossingen, Germany), Michael Angst (Karlsruhe, Germany), Alexander Fuchs (Bruchsal, Germany) and Tanja Walz (Walzbachtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a technical plant, which includes a work area for producing ready-to-ship products from delivered goods and a plurality of load carriers, each including a control, a drive connected ...