ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,717, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Istari Digital Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Software-code-defined digital threads in digital engineering systems with artificial intelligence (AI) assistance" was invented by William Roper Jr. (Charleston, S.C.), Christopher Lee Benson (Arlington, Va.), Sriram Krishnan (Cambridge, Mass.), Peter Galvin (Watertown, Mass.), Baha aldeen E. A. Abunojaim (Roslindale, Mass.), Pranav Sumanth Doijode (Rijswijk, Netherlands) and Najem Aldeen Abu Rmaileh (Amman, Jordan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating digital threads that connect models and software tools for an interconnected ...