ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,538, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Graph-driven production process monitoring" was invented by Lingyun Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Arquimedes Martinez Canedo (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for production process monitoring using graph learning. A production ontology is generated based on data received from an engineering design process, the ontology including selection of production machines, definition of a product, and workflow design. A production graph is instantiated based on the production ontology. Production process data is read from control systems o...