ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,716, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automated synchronization of clone directed acyclic graphs" was invented by Bradley David Safnuk (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for synchronization of clone directed acyclic graphs. The method can include identifying a directed acyclic graph ("DAG") including a plurality of vertices linked in pairwise relationships via a plurality of edges. At least one clone DAG can be created, which at least one clone DAG can be identical to at least a portion of the DAG. For each of the vertices of the DAG, a correspondi...