ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,200, issued on June 10, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Cambridge, Canada).

"Systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line" was invented by Nicholas Willison (Cambridge, Canada), Mehdi Sadeghzadeh (Cambridge, Canada), Masoud Kheradmandi (Cambridge, Canada), Bo Yuan Chang (Cambridge, Canada), Stephen Bacso (Cambridge, Canada), Yang Wang (Cambridge, Canada), Nick Foisy (Cambridge, Canada) and Stanley Kleinikkink (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data an...