ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,389, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Controller for controlling a technical system, and method for configuring the controller" was invented by Siegmund Dull (Munich), Kai Heesche (Munich), Volkmar Sterzing (Neubiberg, Germany) and Marc Christian Weber (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technical system controller is trained using a machine learning method. For this purpose, a chronological sequence of training data is detected for the machine learning method. The training data includes state data, which specifies states of the technical system, and control action data, which specifies control actions ...