ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,971, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Machine controller and methods for configuring and using the machine controller" was invented by Rishith Ellath Meethal (Bavaria, Germany) and Birgit Obst (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine controller, geometry data and measured physical data of a machine is provided. The geometry data and the physical data are input to a machine learning module and to a simulation module of the machine controller. By the input data, the simulation module generates first values of a first physical property of a component of the machine on a discretized grid. Furthermore, an e...