US Patent Issued to ATS on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for evaluating configuration changes on a machine in a manufacturing line" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,316, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Canada).

"Systems and methods for evaluating configuration changes on a machine in a manufacturing line" was invented by Nicholas Willison (Cambridge, Canada) and Stanley Kleinikkink (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for evaluating configuration changes on a machine in a manufacturing line are provided. The machine is controlled by a PLC that stores a plurality of parameters associated with the machine. The method involves operating one or more processors to: obtain, from the PLC, a plurality of first parameter values corresponding to the plurality...