ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,729, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Automatic arrangement of HMI screens" 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: "HMI screens are typically manually engineered or arranged. For example, HMI screens can include various elements, and an engineer often arranges the HMI elements on a given HMI screen, for instance one by one, until the final design of the HMI screen is complete. It is recognized herein that existing approaches to designing and arranging HMI screens lack efficiency, and can be tedious and redundant. Method, sys...