US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 5 for "Method and system for providing recommendations for bill of materials revision" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,952, issued on May 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for providing recommendations for bill of materials revision" was invented by Yushan Liu (Munich) and Anna Himmelhuber (Bayern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For providing recommendations for bill of materials revision, a database is storing bills of materials for a set of products. A pattern learning module processes the stored bills of materials to learn patterns. Embodiments for learning structural and temporal patterns are provided. A pattern application module applies the patterns to a current bill of materials for a product of interest and fore...