ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,480, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for automatically interpreting a piping diagram" was invented by Klaus Wendelberger (St. Leon-Rot, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically interpreting a piping diagram comprising objects, wherein at least two objects are each linked with operational requirements, an operational requirement is defined based on a predefined set of operating principles and based on a predefined set of boundary conditions, the operational requirements included in the piping diagram are successively evaluated during the automatic interpretation, an automation...