ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,755, issued on July 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and device for hierarchically planning executions of operation sequences achieving goal states of technical system workflows and checking them through system simulation or system hardware execution" was invented by Bastian Schurmann (Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany), Sebastian Albrecht (Hallbergmoos, Germany), Bernd Kast (Thannhausen, Germany) and Frederik Deroo (Hallbergmoos, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for hierarchically planning executions of operation sequences achieving goal states of technical system workflows and checking them thro...