ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,196, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Real-time digital modeling" was invented by Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Rajib Kumar Saha (Lasalle, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first computer includes a processor coupled to a memory, the memory including first instructions executable by the processor to transmit a message, responsive to receipt of an indicator from the first sensor of a first system, to an input of a digital model of the first system. The message can include data describing the indicator and data describing an operational and/or a physical enviro...