US Patent Issued to Anheuser-Busch on July 28 for "Assembly line control system and method" (Illinois, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,035, issued on July 28, was assigned to Anheuser-Busch LLC (St. Louis).

"Assembly line control system and method" was invented by Joseph Beringer (Kennesaw, Ga.) and Russel Mathis (New Athens, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly line system comprising including a programable controller, a priority component, a first section upstream of the priority component that includes upstream backup detecting sensors, and a second section downstream of the priority component that includes downstream backup detecting sensors. In operation, the programable controller identifies whether there is a backup in the first and/or second secti...