US Patent Issued to Siemens on Feb. 10 for "Computer-implemented method for determining an optimum assignment of module types to an assembly line selected with regard to its assembly capacity" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,159, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Computer-implemented method for determining an optimum assignment of module types to an assembly line selected with regard to its assembly capacity" was invented by Alexander Pfaffinger (Munich) and Christian Royer (Ottobrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an optimum assignment of module types including: a) ascertaining an expected production time for each module type of the modules to be assembled and for each assembly line; b) assigning a set of module types of the set of module types to a predefined number of fixed-setup setup families ...