ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,802, issued on June 30, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Discover match use (DMU) automation system" was invented by Arquimedes Martinez Canedo (Plainsboro, N.J.), Hartmut Ludwig (West Windsor, N.J.), Lingyun Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Florian Ersch (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Industrial automation systems are often inflexible, which can result in delays that are costly and inconvenient. In particular, it is recognized herein that the engineering phase of automation system implementation currently represents a significant portion of the overall cost of an automation system. As described herein, automation sy...