ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,552, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System and method for identifying substitutable entities in procedural instructions" was invented by HyeongSik Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Sola Shirai (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying substitutions for procedural instructions include parsing a procedural instruction to identify object-action tuples pertaining to the steps of the instruction, and generating a flow graph for the procedural instruction using the identified object-action tuples. The flow graph is then processed using a knowledge graph em...