ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,055, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Methods and systems for the estimation of the computational cost of simulation" was invented by Kyle Kosic (Atlanta), Anil Sehgal (Atlanta), Scott McClennan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joshua Oster-Morris (Atlanta), Ryan Diestelhorst (Atlanta), David M. Freed (Burlingame, Calif.) and Ian Campbell (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating the computational cost of simulation using a machine learning model. An example method includes inputting a feature data set into a machine learning model. The feature data set includes model geometry metadata and simulati...