ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,301, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Filtered product structure" was invented by Andrew Fitt (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nusrat Hamid (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing a view of a filtered hierarchical data structure is described. A user views an initial view of a hierarchical data structure showing at least one branch value at an nth level expansion and provides a filter. A pre-constructed query index corresponding to the filter is queried against the hierarchical data structure to identify unconfigured paths to de...