US Patent Issued to Siemens on Aug. 11 for "Synchronizing information model changes between hierarchical systems of smart factories" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,834, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Synchronizing information model changes between hierarchical systems of smart factories" was invented by Roland Eckl (Forchheim, Germany), Anandrao Todkar (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Phani Ram Kumar Kuruganty (Robbinsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for synchronizing information model changes between hierarchical systems of a smart factory are disclosed. A model generator instantiates objects for an aggregated information model for each of a plurality of subsystems in the smart factory based on an OPC UA standardized model. A synchronization engine m...