ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,197, issued on July 8, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"System contextualization of manufacturing plants" was invented by Neeraj Benjwal (Delhi, India), Pramod Kumar Shrivastava (Pune, India), Roopa Shivani Dhananjaya (Bengaluru, India), Samiksha Hariharan (Bangalore, India) and Trilok Rangan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for system contextualization. For example, a method can include obtaining information pertaining to (i) parts of a manufacturing plant and (ii) steps of a process executing on t...