ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,441, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Method for transforming production flow data to human machine interface data, and a system" was invented by Sebastian Nygren (Arlov, Sweden), Mattias Abrahamsson (Annelov, Sweden) and Rickard Moberg (Teckomatorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transforming production flow data into human machine interface data is presented. The PF data comprises storage objects and processing objects. The method comprises receiving the PF data, identifying the storage objects and the processing objects in the PF data, for each processi...