ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,858, issued on March 3, was assigned to Durr Systems AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Treatment system and treatment method" was invented by Soren Wehler (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Frank Herre (Oberriexingen, Germany), Dietmar Wieland (Waiblingen, Germany), Elias-Joshua Nanninga (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Daniel Ackermann (Ditzingen, Germany) and Uwe Ludwig (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Treatment system (100), having a treatment region for receiving workpieces (102) to be treated, and one or more operating devices (130) for performing one or more operations on the workpieces (102) to be treated."

The pate...