ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,003, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Siemens AG.

"Process control system and method for facilitating operations for users of an industrial automation network" was invented by Michael Dallmann (Wendelstein, Germany), Kai Liu (Heroldsberg, Germany), David Kollinger (Rothenbach a.d. Pegnitz, Germany), Gerhard Langer (Erlangen, Germany), Johannes Edenharter (Allersberg, Germany) and Miriam Esteve Velazquez (Feucht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for facilitating operations for users of an industrial automation network with a plurality of automation devices, wherein work orders for the automation devices are m...