ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,733, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"System for controlling and/or regulating a plurality of machines" was invented by Karsten Heuser (Erlangen, Germany) and Jens Jahnicke (Chemnitz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling and/or regulating a plurality of machines includes a control unit designed to communicate with the plurality of machines and to transmit to at least one of the plurality of machines a data packet which includes an instruction for carrying out a work task, and a licensing unit designed to provide a license required for carrying out the work task, with the license bein...