US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 2 for "Method of performing a process and optimizing control signals used in the process" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,569, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method of performing a process and optimizing control signals used in the process" was invented by Brian E. Brooks (St. Paul, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Peter O. Olson (Andover, Minn.), Tyler W. Olson (Woodbury, Minn.), Himanshu Nayar (St. Paul, Minn.), Frederick J. Arsenault (Stillwater, Minn.) and Nicholas A. Johnson (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a process using a plurality of control signals and resulting in a plurality of measurable outcomes is described. The method includes optimizing the p...