ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,640, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic specification limit calibration using an interactive graphical user interface and related simulation" was invented by Gerald Lee Fish (Martinsville, Ind.), Jason Keith Wiggins (Apex, N.C.) and Brady Adams Brady (Wassenaar, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product includes obtaining, via a graphical user interface: an input of a measured unit distribution derived from measurements, by a measuring device, of a plurality of instances of a physical unit; an input of characteristics of ...