ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,720, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and method for adapting a reconfigurable runtime system used in automation systems" was invented by Arquimedes Martinez Canedo (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Lingyun Wang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for constructing a reconfigurable runtime system used in an automation system using reusable runtime functions (RRFs) is disclosed. A specialization module executes a specialization operation to configure or customize at least one RRF to satisfy functional requirements of the automation system. A stitching module executes a stitching operati...