ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,419, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Machine learning system and method for connecting learning model and industrial plant through abstraction layer" was invented by Benedikt Schmidt (Heidelberg, Germany), Ido Amihai (Heppenheim, Germany), Arzam Muzaffar Kotriwala (Ladenburg, Germany), Moncef Chioua (Montreal), Dennis Janka (Heidelberg, Germany), Felix Lenders (Darmstadt, Germany), Jan Christoph Schlake (Darmstadt, Germany), Martin Hollender (Dossenheim, Germany), Hadil Abukwaik (Weinheim, Germany) and Benjamin Kloepper (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial plant mach...