US Patent Issued to SMS group on April 7 for "System, method and computer program for controlling a production plant consisting of a plurality of plant parts, in particular a metallurgical production plant for producing industrial goods such as metal semi-finished products and/or metal end products" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,359, issued on April 7, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"System, method and computer program for controlling a production plant consisting of a plurality of plant parts, in particular a metallurgical production plant for producing industrial goods such as metal semi-finished products and/or metal end products" was invented by Thomas Daube (Duisburg, Germany), Holger Behrens (Erkrath, Germany), Lutz Kummel (Juchen, Germany) and Ulrich Sommers (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metallurgical production plant has a plurality of plant parts. An input quality window defines required quality charact...