ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,917, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tangram Robotics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"System representation and method of use" was invented by Jeremy Steward (Burlingame, Calif.) and Brandon Minor (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, a system management platform can include a set of system representations and a set of platform-standard element models. Each system representation can include a set of component representations related by a set of constraint representations 140, which can represent the sensing components of a system and the relationships therebetween, respectively, and store component-specific a...