ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,477, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Retrieving industrial asset data from disparate data sources" was invented by Prerna Juhlin (Heidelberg, Germany), Somayeh Malakuti (Dossenheim, Germany), Jens Doppelhamer (Ladenburg, Germany) and Johannes Schmitt (Ladenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for retrieving data that relates to at least one industrial asset includes the steps of: receiving, from a requesting entity, a query for data objects from one or more lifecycle phases of the at least one industrial asset; mapping the query to one or more types of da...