ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,740, issued on March 11, was assigned to Istari Digital Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Interconnected digital engineering and certification ecosystem" was invented by William Roper Jr. (Charleston, S.C.), Christopher Benson (Charleston, S.C.), Long N. Phan (Charleston, S.C.), Alethea Duhon (Orlando, Fla.), Baha Abu Nojaim (Roslindale, Mass.) and Sriram Krishnan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving design and/or engineering data (D/E data) corresponding to a prototype representation of a product and transmitting one or more inputs derived from the D/E data to one or more digital...