ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,976, issued on April 21, was assigned to BIRKET IP HOLDINGS INC. (Winter Garden, Fla.).

"System and method of automated plant control utilizing higher order polynomials for trajectory management of control signals" was invented by David Wayne Russell (Winter Garden, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automated plant control executed by a programmable controller includes generating a template including a defined number of steps to achieve a plant parameter overall change between plant parameter overall initial and final values. Each of the defined number of steps has a respective step change between a respective step ini...