US Patent Issued to SMS group on June 17 for "Maintenance planning system, method and computer program for determining maintenance measures for a production plant, in particular a production plant of the metal production industry, the non-ferrous or steel industry or master alloy manufacture" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,502, issued on June 17, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Maintenance planning system, method and computer program for determining maintenance measures for a production plant, in particular a production plant of the metal production industry, the non-ferrous or steel industry or master alloy manufacture" was invented by Christoph Hausler (Duisburg, Germany), Sebastian Schulz (Aachen, Germany), Claus Wilk (Hilchenbach, Germany) and Christian Mohr (Kerpen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance planning system for a production plant comprises: a production planning system for determining a production ...