ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,292, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Production installation and method for operating a production machine" was invented by Stefan Brand (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production machine (1) that has at least two different standby states is operated. Incoming and outgoing flows (ES, AS), comprising energy flows (EN) and material flows (ST), occur in each standby state, depending on the state. Each standby state has an associated base rating (BB1, BB2) that has a dependency on the period of time that elapses when changing from the respective ...