ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,542, issued on March 31, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Device and computer-implemented method for controlling an extrusion plant, extrusion plant, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Oliver Schramm (Harsum, Germany), Christian Kunze (Hannover, Germany) and David Koll (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulated cold extrudate profile, which defines a profile of an extrudate in a cooled state, by a cold profile modeling unit, the determination of a deviation of the cold extrudate profile from a specified extrudate profile by means of a comparison unit and...