ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,305, issued on March 11, was assigned to SMS GROUP GMBH (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"System and method for monitoring, operating and maintaining an industrial plant, in particular in the metal-producing industry or the steel industry" was invented by Norbert Vogl (Ratingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring, operating and maintaining an industrial plant in the metal-producing industry, including: a mobile terminal device with at least one sensor for recording measured values within the industrial plant, at least one position sensor for detecting the position of the mobile terminal device in the in...