US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 20 for "Mixed operation of production units in hybrid plants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,291, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Mixed operation of production units in hybrid plants" was invented by Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany), Katharina Stark (Weinheim, Germany), Roland Braun (Niederkassel Lulsdorf, Germany), Michael Vach (Wilhelmsfeld, Germany), Nicolai Schoch (Heidelberg, Germany) and Marcel Dix (Allensbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of integrating modules into a hybrid modular plant comprising a discrete manufacturing part and a continuous manufacturing part includes integrating the discrete part into the continuous ...