US Patent Issued to Siemens on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for semi-automatic completion of an engineering project" (German, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,511, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for semi-automatic completion of an engineering project" was invented by Marcel Hildebrandt (Munich), Serghei Mogoreanu (Munich), Mitchell Joblin (Surrey, Canada), Martin Ringsquandl (Raubling, Germany) and Chandra Sekhar Akella (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database stores a set of items, with each item having technical attributes, and with each item representing a module that can be used in an engineering project of a first user, u1. A feature encoder embeds each item based on its technical attributes into a low-dimensional vector space....