US Patent Issued to Tulip Interfaces on May 26 for "Computer-assisted conversion of video description of process into application for process control" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,358, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tulip Interfaces Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Computer-assisted conversion of video description of process into application for process control" was invented by Natan Linder (Cambridge, Mass.), Rony Kubat (Brookline, Mass.), Roy Shilkrot (Arlington, Mass.) and Mason Guy Glidden (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video of a manufacturing process, along with accompanying narration and other descriptive materials, can be used to automatically generate an application for control of the manufacturing process, or assist in a semi-automated generation of the application. As a significant a...