US Patent Issued to KIEFEL on March 17 for "Device and method for optimising the process time of a production machine" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,709, issued on March 17, was assigned to KIEFEL GMBH (Freilassing, Germany).

"Device and method for optimising the process time of a production machine" was invented by Christian Lang (Haigermoos, Austria), Michael Schorghofer (Bad Durrnberg, Austria), Peter Knoll (Ainring, Germany), Andreas Ainz (Plainfeld, Austria) and Horst Hradetz (Ainring/Mitterfelden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a production machine with a control program for visualizing stations and/or machine components, highlighting the speed-determining station and/or the speed-determining machine component in order to optimize the proce...