ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,349, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aveva Software LLC (Lake Forest, Calif.).
"Interactive guidance system for selecting thermodynamics methods in process simulations" was invented by Prasad Narasimhan (Cypress, Texas), Seiya Hirohama (Yokohama, Japan) and Norbert Jung (Wiesbaden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation tool executing a simulation model and a generating an automated dialog associated therewith. The automated dialog comprises a bot configured for interacting with a user, wherein the dialog is displayed to the user. The bot is integrated with a set of rules that are referenced as a function of input r...