US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on March 24 for "System and method for cycle time analysis and bottleneck detection in smart factory assembly lines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,250, issued on March 24, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"System and method for cycle time analysis and bottleneck detection in smart factory assembly lines" was invented by Jiajing Guo (Mountain View, Calif.), Liang Gou (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel Kimport (Campbell, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the device may receive, for a plurality of stations, processing times indicating a time required for a part to be processed by each station, and waiting times indicating how long the part waited before moving to a subsequent one of the plurality of stations. In addi...