ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,612, issued on May 20, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).
"Optimizing manufacturing of physical components" was invented by John Lawrence Brockman (Edmonds, Wash.) and Susan P. Behroozi (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing process for physical components can be optimized using some techniques described herein. For example, a system can access a group of models, where each model corresponds to a respective type of production location. The system can select a model, from the group of models, that corresponds to a particular type of production location selected by a user. The system can select a particular typ...