ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,570, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Planning a technical process having hierarchically structured tasks and parallelization options" was invented by Sebastian Albrecht (Hallbergmoos, Germany), Bernd Kast (Ichenhausen, Germany) and Wendelin Feiten (Neubiberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer-implemented method for executing a technical process comprising hierarchically structured tasks. The technical process includes modification of physical units. The method may include: providing dependency specifications for hierarchically structured tasks;...