ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,779, issued on July 22, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method of communicating with a microservice in an industrial facility" was invented by Johannes Frank (Meerbusch, Germany) and Ingo Thon (Grasbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of communicating with a microservice in an industrial facility. The method is implemented by a controller and includes obtaining one or more data structure types, wherein the data structure types are generated based on an API definition associated with the microservice, generating one or more variables based on the obtained data structure types, wherein the variables are associat...