ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,532, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Workflow creation method and apparatus" was invented by Yue Rong Li (Shanghai) and Yi Peng Zhu (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a workflow creation method. Some examples include: receiving an operation performed by a user on a GUI constructing a functional block model; receiving an operation performed by the user including nesting a behavior tree into a second functional block, wherein the behavior tree defines an operation for a first workcell, and the functional block model defines an operation for a secon...