ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,099, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for transforming a data model for automation purposes into a target ontology" was invented by Rainer Schiekofer (Nuremberg, Germany), Stephan Grimm (Munich) and Maja Milicic Brandt (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing data generally involves a transformation of an OPC UA data model into an ontology. Such an ontology readily provides desired capabilities for validation, querying, and analytics of the OPC UA data model using sophisticated standard tools adapted to the ontology. A method for transforming a semantically enriched and graph-based data model into...