ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,235, issued on March 31, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"NLU-based systems and method for the facilitated control of industrial assets" was invented by Daniel Kruger (Roth, Germany), Florian Kubo (Fuchsstadt, Germany) and Martina Schubert (Altdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-executable Natural Language Understanding configuration generator is configured to generate a Natural Language Understanding configuration. The Natural Language Understanding configuration for a Natural Language Understanding component is based on engineering data related to an asset of an automation system."

The patent was filed on...