ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,740, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"System and method for assisted modeling of manufacturing workflows" was invented by Giorgio Corsini (Genoa, Italy) and Ornella Tavani (Genoa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system automatically assist in a creation of a manufacturing workflow (WF) for manufacturing a product. The method includes receiving a graphical user input in an editing area configured for creating a manufacturing WF, the graphical user input includes a WF starting node and automatically selecting in a meta-workflow (MWF) library, in response to the received graphical user input and ...