ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,260, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Computer-based virtual environment for managing work product quality" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Swapna Sridantuluri (Visakhapatnam, India) and Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve manufacturing quality, embodiments of the present invention dynamically monitor a degree of influencing factors in a predetermined area, and identify one or more machines used in a predetermined manufacturing process. Further, embodime...