ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,936, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Neural logic controllers" was invented by Arquimedes Martinez Canedo (Plainsboro, N.J.), Hasan Sinan Bank (Sacramento, Calif.) and Hartmut Ludwig (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for executing a machine learning model with a controller includes a processor within the controller writing input values to a process image within the controller. The term process image refers to a predefined address space within volatile memory of the controller. A co-processor connected to the controller reads the input values from the process image and applies a mac...