ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,462, issued on July 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Broker entity to bridge semantic gaps for information produced in industrial plants" was invented by Abdulkadir Karaagac (Ladenburg, Germany), Johannes Schmitt (Ladenburg, Germany) and Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented broker entity receives from a requesting device a request for one or more target values of state information that have sought target semantic meanings; obtains one or more source values of state information that are associated with given source semantic meanings; obtains at least in part fr...