ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,192, issued on June 24, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Systems using computation graphs for flow solvers" was invented by Geoffrey Alexander Main (Canonsburg, Pa.) and Raunak Deepak Borker (Canonsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a method can create a directed acyclic graph (DAG) from a programmer specified set of computation units to solve, in a computer program, physics based simulations of physical systems, and the DAG can be used to analyze and debug the computer program. In this method, the computer program can be created by automatically determining dependency relationships in the set of ...