ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,623, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Smart manufacturing platform, smart manufacturing profiles and smart manufacturing marketplace" was invented by James F. Davis (Los Angeles), John Dyck (Newbury, Ohio), Haresh Malkani (Pittsburgh), Prakashan P. Korambath (Calabasas, Calif.) and Jonathan Wise (Chardon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data centric smart manufacturing systems are described. In an embodiment, the data centric smart manufacturing system includes several systems providing raw data, several reusable data model profiles that ingest the raw data and cont...