ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,896, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Providing domain models for industrial systems" was invented by Steffen Lamparter (Feldkirchen, Germany), Maja Milicic Brandt (Munich), Nataliia Rummele (Munich) and Swathi Shyam Sunder (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hidden Features are locally extracted from Industrial Data of the industrial system by a Local Application executed on a local computer of a customer. The Hidden Features are uploaded to an external computer of a service provider. A Domain Model for the industrial system is externally determined from an Industrial Model Library...