ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,090, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for providing recommendations for completion of an engineering project" was invented by Akhil Mehta (Munich), Marcel Hildebrandt (Munich), Serghei Mogoreanu (Munich) and Swathi Shyam Sunder (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a recommendation engine to provide automatically recommendations for the completion of an engineering project, the recommendation engine including: a first artificial intelligence, AI, module adapted to provide latent representations of a sequence of selected items; and a second artificial intelligence, AI, module ...