ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,215, issued on July 21, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Method and system for hierarchical perceiver for manufacturing data" was invented by Chen Qiu (Pittsburgh), Wan-Yi Lin (Wexford, Pa.), Carlos Cunha (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jared Evans (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes obtaining, from one or more stations, embedding vectors that embed features of the stations, obtaining measurement vectors and associated measurement names, generating a text array of the measurement names utilizing a language model, concatenating the text array and the measurement vector at one or more cross-at...