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US 12,586,037 · App. 18/658,257 · Granted Mar 24, 2026

System and method for autonomously generating digital procedures and procedure guidance within a facility

Inventors: Frank Maggiore (Jersey City, NJ); Angelo Stracquatanio (Jersey City, NJ); Quoc Duong (Jersey City, NJ); Michael Keels (Jersey City, NJ)
Assignee: Apprentice FS, Inc.
G06Q10/10G06F3/012G06Q10/06316G06T11/00G06V20/20G06T2200/24
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,586,037
App. No.
18/658,257
Filed
May 8, 2024
Granted
Mar 24, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2683
USPC
345/633
Abstract

A method for automatically generating a digital procedure includes, during a set-up period: aggregating an equipment manual and instructional blocks associated with an equipment unit into a data container; correlating data, in the data container, with a set of language signals; and aggregating the set of language signals into a procedure authoring model characteristic of a procedure convention for performing steps of instructional blocks by an operator at the equipment unit. The method also includes, during a deployment period: receiving an authoring request; detecting the set of language signals in the authoring request; correlating text, in the authoring request, to an action signal related to the equipment unit; and based on the action signal and the procedure authoring model, generating a sequence of instructional blocks predicted to yield an outcome of the request.

Claims (13)

1 . A method for automatically authoring digital procedures within a facility, the method comprising:

during an initial time period:

accessing a first equipment unit manual associated with a first equipment unit located within a particular facility;

accessing an instructional block library containing instructional blocks for digital procedures performed at the particular facility;

aggregating the first equipment unit manual and a set of instructional blocks, in the instructional block library, associated with the first equipment unit into a first procedure data container;

correlating sets of data, in the first procedure data container, with a first set of language signals;

aggregating the first set of language signals into a first procedure authoring model representing combinations of language signals, in the first set of language signals, characteristic of a first procedure convention for performing the set of instructional blocks by an operator at the first equipment unit; and

associating the first procedure authoring model to the particular facility in a corpus of facilities; and

during a first time period following the initial time period:

accessing a first procedure authoring request from an operator device associated with the particular facility;

scanning the first procedure authoring request for the first set of language signals;

correlating a first sequence of text, in the first procedure authoring request, with a first action signal in the first set of language signals corresponding to the first equipment unit; and

based on the first action signal and the first procedure authoring model, generating a first sequence of instructional blocks predicted to yield a first outcome of the first procedure authoring request within the particular facility.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 23, 2025
From: MAGGIORE, FRANK; STRACQUATANIO, ANGELO; DUONG, QUOC; KEELS, MICHAEL
To: APPRENTICE FS, INC.
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Continuity (7)
Continuation In Part 18204837 · Jun 1, 2023
Continuation 17690944 · Mar 9, 2022
Continuation 16678992 · Nov 8, 2019
Provisional Application 63522843 · Jun 23, 2023
Provisional Application 63522840 · Jun 23, 2023
Provisional Application 62757593 · Nov 8, 2018
Related Publication 20240412164A1 · Dec 12, 2024
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