US Patent Issued to Versum Materials US on April 7 for "Shared data induced production process improvement" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,977, issued on April 7, was assigned to Versum Materials US LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Shared data induced production process improvement" was invented by Safa Kutup Kurt (Darmstadt, Germany), Rolf Roth (Darmstadt, Germany), Laura Matz (Tempe, Ariz.) and Samuel Wood (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for developing or improving a process for producing a product from a material comprising steps of acquiring process data from at least two different sources for the production process and its relevant parameters by using a Data Collecting computer; using the acquired process data related to the production process to perform ...