ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,912, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method for configuring a control system for a process plant" was invented by Florian Schliebitz (Munich), Ingo Thomas (Oberhaching, Germany), Bernd Wunderlich (Starnberg, Germany), Martin Pottmann (Wolfratshausen, Germany) and Anna Ecker (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a control system for a process plant using a dynamic model of the process plant, the dynamic model being based on at least one of thermo fluidic correlations, thermo dynamic correlations, phenomenological correlations, and equations, and being based on geometry and...