ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,754, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Siegfried Hofmann GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"System for producing at least one particle foam moulding" was invented by Johannes Schutz (Bamberg, Germany), Patrick Fischer (Ebersdorf, Germany), Stefan Mahr (Hochstadt, Germany), Peter Korber (Kulmbach, Germany), Kai Faulhaber (Bad Staffelstein, Germany) and Edin Pachadjioski (Lichtenfels, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for producing at least one particle foam molding from an expandable or expanded particle foam material, comprising: -a detection device which is configured to detect at least one item of resource information descr...