ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,709, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Intent-based automation engineering method" was invented by Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany) and Raoul Jetley (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intent-based automation engineering method for automation of a production process includes: receiving an intent model, correlating to process intent, including production process functions, constraints on measurable properties on the production process functions, and/or production process function sequences required for the production process, as a received intent model; receiving a process model,...