ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,895, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for configurable message processing for product manufacture processes performed through a manufacturing facility" was invented by Martin Kline (Glen Allen, Va.) and Wesley Scott (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may include physical devices of a manufacturing facility and a message processing engine. The message processing engine may be configured to receive, from the physical devices of the manufacturing facility, update messages for product manufacture processes performed by the manufacturing fa...