ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,184, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Phaidra Inc. (Seattle).

"Industrial process control using unstructured data" was invented by Christopher R. Vause (Austin, Texas), Cagdas Alcicek (Seattle), Priyam Agarwal (Seattle), Katherine Elizabeth Hoffman (Silverdale, Wash.) and Vedavyas Panneershelvam (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, a method for industrial process control can include: determining an industrial system representation using a set of industrial system templates, wherein each template is associated with a control model and a set of attributes corresponding to control model features; determining as...