ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,082, issued on March 24, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Hybrid system and method of carbon and energy managements for green intelligent manufacturing" was invented by Hao Tieng (Tainan City, Taiwan), Fan-Tien Cheng (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ting-Chia Ou (Tainan City, Taiwan), Tsung-Han Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Yu-Yong Li (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid method for green intelligent manufacturing (GiM) combines the carbon reduction and the energy saving into the intelligent manufacturing based Industry 4.1 cloud platform. GiM assists companies to achieve the goal ...